Summary

A TEXAS STATE TROOPER WHO WAS INVOLVED IN A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT RETURNS TO DUTY THIS WEEK. HIS ACCIDENT WAS CAUGHT ON DASHBOARD CAMERA.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 174353
Story Slug TROOPER RETURNS TO JOB (11/24/1999)
Location SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
Format PKG W-TAG
Date 11/24/1999
Archive Time 44:05
TRT 1:15
Supers San Antonio, Texas Trooper Kevin Marmor, D.P.S. Vicki Buffolino, Reporting
Video Description DASHBOARD CAMERA SHOT OF POLICE MAN AT CAR, ADVANCE SHOWING CAR HITTING TRUCK AND BODY FLYING OFF TO SIDE, SOT BLACKED OUT, REPLAY OF HIT, SOT ASKED TO CALL WIFE, OFFICER TALKING TO TRUCKER, TROOPER CAR DRIVING AWAY.
Description A TEXAS STATE TROOPER WHO WAS INVOLVED IN A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT RETURNS TO DUTY THIS WEEK. HIS ACCIDENT WAS CAUGHT ON DASHBOARD CAMERA.
Script LEAD: IN MAY OF 19-98, A TEXAS STATE TROOPER MADE A ROUTINE STOP THAT WOULD CHANGE HIS LIFE FOREVER. TROOPER KEVIN MARMOR IS GIVING THANKS TODAY (THURSDAY) FOR THE ABILITY TO GO BACK TO WORK OVER A YEAR LATER. AS VICKI BUFFOLINO REPORTS, THE ACCIDENT IS CAUGHT ON VIDEO, AND IT'S A THANKSGIVING MIRACLE MARMOR IS ALIVE. SCRIPT: NATS "How ya doing ma'am" IT WAS A ROUTINE TRAFFIC STOP, ALONG INTERSTATE 35 SOUTH OF SAN ANTONIO. NATS A TRAFFIC STOP IN MAY OF '98 THAT NEARLY ENDED TROOPER KEVIN MARMOR'S LIFE. IN A FLASH, A PASSING CAR CLIPS HIS PATROL UNIT AND CRASHES INTO THE TRUCK HE STOPPED JUST MOMENTS BEFORE. SOT (MARMOR) "At the moment of impact, it was just a loud, loud pop and everything blacked out." INCLUDING THE CAMERA IN HIS CAR. BUT AFTERWARDS, IT RECORDS THE SCENE AS THE TROOPER IS STRUCK, THE MAN WHO GETS KNOCKED DOWN WAS A PASSENGER IN THE TRUCK, HE WAS NOT HURT. NATS "Hang on Kevin, hang on." BUT THE TROOPER WAS, THE ONLY THING ON HIS MIND, BESIDES HIS BROKEN LEG AND SEVERELY CUT ARM. NATS "I asked him to call my wife." "I'm doing a lot better than everybody expected me to." "How ya doin sir?" DOCTORS TOLD HIM HIS PROSPECT OF RETURNING TO WORK WAS DIM. NOW HE'S BACK ON PATROL AND THANKFUL TO BE DOING WHAT USED TO BE A ROUTINE BLENDING IN WITH THE REST OF THE TROOPERS ON THE STREETS THIS HOLIDAY SEASON. SOT "That I guess made me work that much harder to come back." TAG: TROOPER MARMOR WANTS TO REMIND EVERYONE HEADING OUT THIS WEEKEND, TO BE CAREFUL, SLOW DOWN AND BUCKLE UP.
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Keywords

DASHCAM
DASH-CAM
CAUGHT ON VIDEO
CAUGHT ON TAPE
CAUGHT ON CAMERA
DASHCAM’S
DASHCAMS
INCREDIBLE
I SURVIVED
TROOPER HIT
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