Crime & Safety
Sleeping Homeless Man Hit, Killed On East Palo Alto Road
Police say a truck ran over the man, who was wrapped in plastic and towels and sleeping on an abandoned mattress.
EAST PALO ALTO, CA — A sleeping homeless man was run over by a truck early this week in East Palo Alto, police said. Officers at 6:55 a.m. Thursday went to the 2400 block of Pulgas Avenue to check on a man who was lying in the road.
Police said a preliminary investigation showed that a 47-year-old man was wrapped in plastic and towels and sleeping on an abandoned mattress on Pulgas Avenue when a truck ran over him.
The truck hit the man at 6:35 a.m. and he died where he was hit. Police said they have located the truck involved in the man's death and they are investigating the death as a traffic accident.
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The man's name was not yet available from the coroner's office.
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