COLLEGE STATION, Texas (Telemundo Central Texas) – A pedestrian was killed in a crash involving a College Station garbage truck Tuesday morning. She was later identified as a Texas A&M professor.
The College Station Police Department (CSPD) said the fatal hit-and-run occurred near Lake Walk in Traditions.
Dr. Hilaire Kallendorf, 50, of College Station was identified Tuesday afternoon as the pedestrian who was struck and killed by the garbage truck. Dr. Kallendorf was also confirmed as Professor of Hispanic and Religious Studies at Texas A&M University.
College Station Police (CSPD) asked drivers to clear the area while accident reconstruction, criminal investigations division and crime scene evaluation are underway.
“With any type of accident with serious bodily injury or a fatal accident. We will automatically notify our criminal investigation division our accident reconstruction division as well as the crime scene and our drone team our air operations team. So they’re all here right now doing a thorough investigation just to you know, figure out what happened and kind of go from there,” said College Station Police PIO David Simmons.
In a statement, the city of College Station wrote: “We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life involving a City of College Station solid waste vehicle this morning. Our sincere and heartfelt condolences and prayers go out to the family and everyone involved. “The city of College Station is investigating how the tragedy occurred and will provide more details at a later date.”
College Station City Manager Bryan Woods was on the scene Tuesday and says it’s important to have all the resources needed to find out what happened.
“Any time something this serious happens, we want to make sure we do everything we can and we have a lot of people trying to help with this from every aspect. So obviously it’s important for us to be here from a city leadership perspective and make sure that we have everything looked for and all of our resources to try to make sure that we can get the information out to the public, but obviously one day very sad and we are going to move forward as best we can,” Woods said.
The city decided to suspend garbage collection service until Wednesday. Scheduled collections will be delayed one day.
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