Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
A 76-year-old man died Monday after being struck by a pickup truck pulling a landscaping trailer, Falls Township police said.
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Officers were dispatched around 7:30 a.m. to the 1900 block of Bristol Pike near Brown’s Trailer Park for reports of a pedestrian struck, police said.
Responders found the man who had been struck, and the Levittown-Fairless Hills Rescue Squad transported the injured pedestrian to St. Mary Medical Center.
Police said the man died from his injuries.
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A preliminary investigation found that a 53-year-old Trenton man was driving a heavy-duty pickup truck towing a 24-foot landscaping trailer when he began backing the rig up along Bristol Pike. Police said the driver and his passengers were unaware that the elderly Morrisville man was standing near the back of the trailer when the vehicle struck him.
The driver and the passengers in the truck were not hurt, police said.
Drugs, alcohol and medical emergencies are not suspected to have contributed to the crash, police said.
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Investigators are asking anyone who witnessed the incident or who has security or surveillance video of the collision to contact Cpl. Alexander Sansone at 215-302-3334 or a.sansone@fallstwppd.com.
