Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper Michael Slagle died after his cruiser slid off a road and a Rural/Metro fire truck sent to the scene also slid off the road and toppled onto the disabled cruiser that was down a 10-foot embankment, reports knoxnews.com.
None of the five firefighters aboard the truck were injured.
Slagle at 6:51 a.m. reported his cruiser had slid off the road. Emergency personnel, however, had trouble reaching the injured trooper because of icy roads.
When the fire truck slid into the cruiser, it injured a man who had gone to check on Slagle. That man was loaded aboard a four-wheel drive vehicle with paramedics and taken to a hospital.
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