ELDERLY MAN STRIKES TROOPER (1998)
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.