Sylvester Smith, 22, killed when truck strikes him after he stops to help stranded snowmachiners on Parks Highway near Nenana, Alaska
A UAF student stopped to help stranded snowmachiners. Then he was hit and killed by a truck
Alaska State Troopers said Sylvester Smith, 22, was killed south of Nenana near Mile 280 of the Parks Highway. Troopers got a report just after 6 p.m. of a pedestrian who had stepped out of his vehicle to help a disabled snowmachiner, only to be hit by a tanker truck.
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