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This is the second time in February 2021 that a person in a broken-down vehicle on the side of I-90 was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer.
The most recent accident happened on Saturday, Feb. 20, around 6 a.m. Massachusetts State Troopers responded to a report of a man being hit by a vehicle.
Police determined that the man who was struck, Mustapha Faddi, 57, had pulled his vehicle over on the side of the road to check on a mechanical problem. While attempting to fix his car, Faddi and his vehicle were struck by a passing tractor-trailer out of New Jersey, according to Patch.
Faddi died at the scene.
The incident is still under investigation and no criminal charges or infractions against the driver of the tractor-trailer have been filed at this time.
Another person was hit by a big truck and killed on I-90 earlier this month. On the night of Feb. 2, a 33-year-old Hartford man, who had broken down on the side of the road, died when he was hit by a tractor-trailer while getting out of his vehicle, according to the Boston Globe.
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