Summary

TROOPER KEVIN MARMOR SUSTAINED SEVERE BODILY INJURIES AS A RESULT OF A TRAFFIC CRASH. THE TROOPER HAD STOPPED A TRUCK IN FRIO COUNTY, TEXAS AND WAS SEARCHING THE VEHICLE WHEN AN ELDERLY DRIVER BECAME FOCUSED ON THE PATROL LIGHTS AND STRUCK BOTH THE STOPPED VEHICLE AND MARMOR, THROWING HIM APPROXIMATELY 30 FEET THROUGH THE AIR. THE TROOPER SURVIVED THE INCIDENT BUT HIS LEFT ARM WAS NEARLY SEVERED, HIS RIGHT LEG BELOW THE KNEE WAS SHATTERED AND TWO VERTEBRAE WERE CRACKED.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 286122
Story Slug ELDERLY MAN STRIKES TROOPER (1998)
Location TEXAS
Format DASHCAM
Date 5-25-1998
Archive Time 18:52:00
TRT 2:07
Supers SAME AS CLIP 281445, REPORTER PACKAGE ON CLIP 174353
Video Description POLICE DAYTIME COLOR DASHCAM OF TRUCK PULLED TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD DURING TRAFFIC STOP, TROOPER SEARCHING CAR, DRIVER OF CAR WITH HIS HANDS BEHIND HIS HEAD STANDING ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, ALL OF A SUDDEN OUT OF NOWHERE, A CAR SLAMS INTO THE PICKUP TRUCK AS TROOPER IS IN IT, SHOTS OF CRASH, CAR COLLIDES WITH PARKED CAR, ELDERLY DRIVER GETS OUT OF CAR AND WALKS TOWARDS TROOPER CAR, PEOPLE PULL OVER TO HELP, TROOPER HELPS INJURED PEOPLE.
Description TROOPER KEVIN MARMOR SUSTAINED SEVERE BODILY INJURIES AS A RESULT OF A TRAFFIC CRASH. THE TROOPER HAD STOPPED A TRUCK IN FRIO COUNTY, TEXAS AND WAS SEARCHING THE VEHICLE WHEN AN ELDERLY DRIVER BECAME FOCUSED ON THE PATROL LIGHTS AND STRUCK BOTH THE STOPPED VEHICLE AND MARMOR, THROWING HIM APPROXIMATELY 30 FEET THROUGH THE AIR. THE TROOPER SURVIVED THE INCIDENT BUT HIS LEFT ARM WAS NEARLY SEVERED, HIS RIGHT LEG BELOW THE KNEE WAS SHATTERED AND TWO VERTEBRAE WERE CRACKED.
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Keywords

CAUGHT ON TAPE
CAUGHT ON CAMERA
CAUGHT ON VIDEO
SURVEILLANCE
CCTV
IN-CAR
POLICE
COPS
ELDERLY
ASLEEP
EXPLOSION
SMASHED INTO
ACCIDENT
CRASH
BAD DRIVER
WORST DRIVERS
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