[opendtv] Future Darwin Award?
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: OpenDTV Mail List <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:15:01 -0400
I intend absolutely NO disrespect to the deceased here, but there is
more than a little irony in this story posted on ShopTalk today...
Craig
Television cameraman killed while filming at dangerous intersection
By JOSEFINA LOZA
Associated Press
A television cameraman filming a story about a dangerous intersection
was struck and killed by a vehicle, police said. Jeff Frolio, 45,
died Thursday night at Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha.
Frolio was struck about 5 p.m. Thursday while crossing the
intersection to get another tape from his vehicle, Douglas County
Sheriff Tim Dunning said. He walked into oncoming traffic, Dunning
said.
A 20-year veteran with station KETV, Frolio was covering a story for
the evening's broadcast about two teens who died at that intersection
last month.
The driver who hit Frolio was not drinking alcohol or speeding,
deputies said. The speed limit of the highway is 60 mph. The woman
didn't realize she had struck a pedestrian until she looked in her
rearview mirror, deputies said.
She has not been ticketed, Dunning said.
The intersection is near a hilltop and is heavily traveled from both
east and west, Dunning said.
Several residents have complained the busy intersection is a hazard.
But Dunning said he didn't think there was anything wrong with the
highway.
"Unfortunately he walked into the path of a vehicle," Dunning said.
"It's not a traffic engineering problem."
Frolio was chosen as the Nebraska Television Photographer of the Year
twice in his career.
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