Sacramento Deputy Killed, 5 Others Hurt When Jail Van Hits Truck
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SACRAMENTO — A sheriff’s deputy was killed Tuesday and five other people were injured when a jail van crashed into a stalled big-rig truck on Interstate 5, temporarily shutting down the freeway and snarling commuter traffic for miles.
Lt. Jim Cooper said the dead officer was Sandy Larson, 53, a member of the Sacramento Sheriff’s Department since 1974.
The injured included a second deputy, Susan Rosenberg, and two Soledad Prison inmates, Robert Fowler and James Columbus, who were being transported to Sacramento for court appearances, Cooper said.
Two other men, Jerry Harter, 58, and Milton Zamboni, 80, also were hurt, according to David Ong, a spokesman for UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento.
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