{"id":17780,"date":"2025-01-08T12:19:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T12:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/man-fatally-struck-while-assisting-semi-truck-driver-in-snowy-gas-station-lot\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T12:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T12:19:27","slug":"man-fatally-struck-while-assisting-semi-truck-driver-in-snowy-gas-station-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/man-fatally-struck-while-assisting-semi-truck-driver-in-snowy-gas-station-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"Man fatally struck while assisting semi truck driver in snowy gas station lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Police say that a man lost his life on Monday in a pedestrian vs. semi truck strike in Ellsworth, Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around 1 p.m. on January 6 at D&amp;S Oil Company, a gas station near I-70 in Ellsworth, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kake.com\/home\/kansas-man-run-over-killed-while-helping-semi-get-through-snow\/article_deda9da6-ccf8-11ef-9edd-5b656f885897.html\">KAKE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FKAKEnews%2Fposts%2F1057869486382747&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"520\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The outlet reports that 65 year old Rudolph Martinez was assisting a semi truck driver with navigating through the snowy parking lot when the truck backed over him.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez passed away at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansas.com\/news\/state\/article298109808.html\">Wichita Eagle<\/a> identified Martinez as a fellow truck driver.<\/p>\n<p>The semi truck driver was identified as a 44 year old Missouri resident.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is under investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2025\/man-fatally-struck-while-assisting-semi-truck-driver-in-snowy-gas-station-lot\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police say that a man lost his life on Monday in a pedestrian vs. semi truck strike in Ellsworth, Kansas. The incident occurred around 1 p.m. on January 6 at D&amp;S Oil Company, a gas station near I-70 in Ellsworth, according to KAKE. The outlet reports that 65 year old Rudolph Martinez was assisting a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}