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Showing posts with label Vehicles and Machines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vehicles and Machines. Show all posts
According to the New York Police Department, a pedestrian crossing a street wound up being struck by two vehicles and then dragged 17 miles before being discovered.
It was early in the morning when 26-year old Guido Salvador Carabajo-Jara, was struck by an SUV while attempting to cross a street. Just seconds later, a dark colored van drove over him, his body getting lodged in the vehicle's undercarriage.
According to investigators, the driver of the second vehicle was apparently oblivious to what he struck and carried on driving for 17 miles until a passerby was finally able to call his attention to the man's body.
A surveillance video attached to a store - Main PC - captured a man seen exiting a vehicle that dropped him off on 108th Street, just before 6:09 a.m. The man is seen properly observing pedestrian safety rules as he crosses 50th Avenue. Soon after, a second man appears in the video and he is struck by the SUV. The first pedestrian, a witness to the accident, can be seen grabbing his head with his hands in disbelief. Police were called immediately afterwards.
When authorities arrived at the scene in Corona, no evidence of a pedestrian hit was found. Nearly an hour later, in Brighton Beach, a passerby saw the body of a man trapped underneath a 1998 Chevy mini-van at the intersection of Neptune Avenue and Brighton 10th Terrace. The pedestrian flagged down the driver and immediately called police.
Reports identify the driver of the mini-van as 52-year-old Manuel Gaspar Lituma Sanchez. Police say it appears Sanchez did not realize he had struck the man and dragged him for nearly 20 miles. Investigators believe a suspension bar underneath the van caught on to the victim's rib cage, dragging him for miles. The driver reportedly smelled something burning and pulled over once along the way, but did not see the body.
A cadre of uniformed police officers retraced the van’s route, to search for pieces of the victim’s remains.
It's unclear whether he was dead or alive when initially struck by the first driver. No charges were laid.
Robert Amaral, 60, became trapped in the back compartment of a garbage truck. Residents in the area called police after hearing cries for help coming from an alley.
Neighbor Maria Arciniega lives in a house right behind where the accident happened. She said her husband heard someone screaming, "Help, Help." The entire family then went outside, and started to knock on the truck to see if someone was inside.
But the screams then stopped, Arciniega said.
When crews arrived at the scene, they found Amaral inside the trash compactor of the Allied Waste garbage truck.
Amaral, a worker for the private waste disposal company since 2004, was pronounced deceased at the scene.
He had been caught in the compactor from the waste down, police said.
"This is just unfortunate, horrible," Phoenix Sgt. Mark Rivera said. "It's an unfortunate way to have to die."
Officials said they believe there was a malfunction with the compactor portion of the truck and the man was working on that portion when he became trapped.
Kenji Urada (c. 1944 — July 4, 1981) was one of the first persons reported to have been killed by a robot.
On July 4, 1981, Urada was employed as a 37-year old maintenance engineer at a Kawasaki Heavy Industries plant. While working on a broken robot, he failed to turn it off completely, resulting in the robot pushing him into a grinding machine with its hydraulic arm. He died as a result. The circumstances of his death were not made public until December 8, after an investigation by the labor standards bureau was completed.
It was the first recorded fatality blamed on one of the about 70,000 robots in use in Japanese industrial plants.
The investigators said Kenji Urada stepped across a safety barrier and inadvertently started the robot, whose arm stabbed him in the back.
Urada apparently hit the on-switch accidentally after leaping over a chain fence built around the robot that was labelled "Off Limits," officials said.
Gregory Biggs, a 37-year-old homeless man in Fort Worth, Texas, was struck by a car being driven by Chante Jawan Mallard, who had been drinking and taking drugs that night. Biggs’ torso became lodged in Mallard’s windshield with severe but not immediately fatal injuries. Even though she was a former nurse's aide, Mallard drove home and left the car in her garage with Biggs still lodged in her car’s windshield. She repeatedly visited Biggs and even apologized for hitting him. When Biggs died an unknown number of hours later, still in the windshield of her car in her garage, she called a male friend, Clete Jackson, for assistance. Mallard, Jackson, and Jackson's cousin Herbert Tyrone Cleveland, took the body to a park and left it there, even going so far as to set fire to part of the car in an attempt to disguise the evidence. The three were each convicted on charges of tampering with evidence for this.
Mallard became a suspect after she was reported talking and laughing about the incident at a party some four months after the events. "I hit this white man," Mallard allegedly told acquaintance Maranda Daniel, laughing. Evidence showed that Gregory would have lived had he had proper medical care. His body was found in a park the day after the October 26, 2001, incident.
Chante Mallard was tried and convicted for murder in this case and received a 50-year prison sentence. The film Stuck is loosely based on this unusual death.
A man severed at the waist by an 18-wheeler, lived for more than three hours, as paramedics rushed his torso by air and his lower body by ground to the hospital where he died.
Herbert Lee Grossman, 59, of Quitman, Texas, was crushed about 10 a.m. while walking in a truck stop parking lot. The truck, which was moving at less than 5 mph, was pulling out of a parking space. "We got the call as a signal seven (dead person), and then a few minutes later, I heard (paramedics) saying, "We've got breath,' " said Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Melissa Pestana. Grossman raised his arms to the paramedics, who airlifted his upper body to West Florida Regional Medical Center by helicopter, while an ambulance carried his lower body. He was pronounced dead at 1:32 p.m.
The driver of the truck, Eddie Patterson, 55, of Lake Providence, La., had been talking to Grossman moments before moving his truck. The two had been checking Grossman's truck. "The driver said he rolled out, looked in his rearview mirror and all he saw was legs," said truck driver Don Leggett, 53. "He just figured there would be a body attached. If you're cut in half, wouldn't you die instantly?"
