Virginia
Virginia police chief killed after being hit by truck
MECKLENBURG COUNTY, Va. — The chief of Brodnax Police was killed on Friday evening after he was hit by a truck whereas making an attempt to get well animal stays.
On Friday evening, Brodnax Police Chief Joe Carey pulled off to the fitting facet of the highway within the 200 block of Piney Pond Highway/Route 58 to get well the stays of an animal that had been hit within the roadway.
As Carey was returning to the facet of the freeway, a Ford F-150 pickup truck was unable to keep away from hitting the chief.
Carey was delivered to a hospital the place he would succumb to his accidents.
The motive force of the pickup truck was not injured. Police stated that alcohol was not an element within the crash and that it’s beneath investigation presently.
Don Dugger, the mayor of Brodnax, shared the next assertion following Carey’s passing:
This night the City of Brodnax misplaced a devoted member of our neighborhood. It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I have to announce the tragic loss of life of Police Chief Joe Carey to a visitors crash on Route 58. Extremely regarded for his public security professionalism and expertise, Joe was a real buddy to so many people. He actually cherished his job and labored exhausting to make a distinction whereas defending and serving our city.
Chief Carey, 66, is survived by his spouse, 4 sons, a daughter, and several other grandchildren. I ask that you simply hold his household and colleagues with the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Workplace in your ideas and prayers throughout this troublesome time.
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