A truck driver was killed on a street running through the Port of Long Beach early this morning when another truck rear-ended his vehicle, causing him to be run over, according to police.
Police said the crash happened around 6:40 a.m. today in the 2600 block of Pier T Avenue.
The driver had stopped his truck along the curbline and “was standing next to the engine compartment when it was rear-ended by another semi-truck,” police said in a statement. “The force of the impact caused the man to fall to the ground at which point he was run over by his semi-truck.”
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The man died at the scene. Authorities haven’t publicly released his name while they work to notify his family…