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DRIVER HERO * USA - Takes hit from truck to save trooper
Boston,MA,USA -The Boston Herald, by Jessica Fargen -12 Jan 2007: -- Even as the speeding semi barreled closer and closer in his rear view mirror, a humble MassHighway hero says he didn’t think twice when he swerved his truck in the big rig’s path to save a state trooper from being crushed to death inside his cruiser... “I thought, ‘I’m gonna get hit. It’s my job,’ ” Kevin Sullivan said last night from his hospital room at Boston Medical Center, where he’s recovering from Wednesday’s crash. “I’m the first line of defense of the workers.”... Sullivan, 59, was on Interstate 495 in Middleboro, slowly following a pothole crew and a state police cruiser in his heavy-duty crash truck - designed to protect work crews from cars - when he realized the tractor-trailer going 60 mph wasn’t slowing down... As the seconds ticked by, Sullivan saw everything in slow motion. He angled his crash truck to blunt the impact to the cruiser, where trooper Michael Fitzgerald sat helpless... The semi plowed into Sullivan’s truck, sending it toppling down an embankment, and then the rig smashed into the back end of the Fitzgerald’s cruiser... The trooper, who incurred only minor injuries thanks to Sullivan’s courage and quick thinking, was released from the hospital Wednesday night...
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