Traffic control worker Charlie Ellis, 71, dead after reversing dump truck runs him over at Jerry Newson Way and South 5th Street in Nashville, Tennessee
Police: Goodlettsville man killed after dump truck backs over him in East Nashville
The road was in the process of being repaved when a dump truck hauling asphalt backed over Ellis. Ellis, a traffic control worker, was wearing a high visibility traffic vest at the time.
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