BUCKEYE, AZ : Man hit killed by semi-truck in parking lot of Buckeye grocery store on Wednesday, 26th July 2023

A man is dead in Buckeye after officers say he was hit by a semi-truck in the parking lot of a busy grocery store Wednesday morning.

Buckeye police tell Arizona’s Family that the semi-truck driver hit 72-year-old James Runge around 9:30 a.m. at the Fry’s near 196th Avenue and Indian School Road. When officers showed up, they found witnesses and bystanders helping Runge. Crews immediately began conducting CPR and rushed him to the hospital, where he later died from his injuries.

Details surrounding what led up to the crash are still under investigation, but police say that the driver stayed on the scene, and it doesn’t appear that impairment was a factor in the crash.



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