steamroller kills man

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: snopes@netcom.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: run over by steamroller?
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 00:38:08 GMT

Chris Mankey (chris@solutions.solon.com) wrote:

:  I looking for actual instances in real life where people have been 
: flattened by a steamroller. 

  Florida papers have all the best stuff:

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               Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale), September 20, 1994               

   Steamroller kills man

   EVANSTON, Ill. - A 69-year-old man was crushed by a runaway steamroller
and died after pulling a boy off the machine. 

   The boy ran away before the ambulance arrived.

   Roger Bardwell, a former district superintendent of education in Elk
Grove Village, was sitting at a picnic table in a park near his home on
Saturday when two boys clambered onto a steamroller and started it up,
authorities said. 

   As the machine rolled toward a street, one boy jumped to the ground, but
the other couldn't get off. Bardwell pulled the boy to safety and then
tried to stop the machine. The steamroller crushed his legs. He died on the
way to the hospital. 

January 25, 1995