Tallahassee, FL : Trooper killed after hit by vehicle in north Florida on Saturday, June 17, 2017

Florida Highway Patrol trooper was killed Saturday evening after being hit by a car in north Florida.

Sgt. William Trampass Bishop, a 30-year veteran with the department, got pinned under a car after being struck outside his patrol car on Interstate 75 in Alachua County, officials said.Deputies with the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office responded to a crash on southbound Interstate 75 about 6:30 p.m. and handed it off to troopers, said Chris Sims, a spokesman for the Sheriff’s Office.

Bishop was trying to close off several lanes of the interstate to investigate the crash when a Cadillac didn’t slow down and rear-ended a Ford Fusion, which in turn struck the trooper, said highway patrol Lt. Patrick Riordan.

Shortly after deputies left, the Sheriff’s Office started getting multiple calls that a trooper had been hit by a vehicle while investigating the crash, Sims said.

Deputies went back and saw the trooper was pinned under a Ford Fusion.

“They pulled him out from under the vehicle and they rendered as much aid as they could” until paramedics responded and took him to an area hospital, Sims said.

Riordan said he knew Bishop well and he was a dedicated servant to the community.

“He was well-liked and a senior member of the Florida Highway Patrol,” he said. “He was just out doing his job and this happened.”

No one has been arrested in the crash and troopers say an extensive investigation is underway.

A statement was sent late Saturday from the highway patrol and Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, explaining that everyone was grieving with Bishop’s wife, son and the rest of his family during this “horrific time,” adding he was a model trooper who “put the well-being of those he serves above his own to keep Florida roadways safe.”

Florida enacted a Move Over law in 2002, which requires drivers to move over one lane or slow down to 20 mph below the speed limit when passing law enforcement, emergency workers and tow-truck drivers.

Both FHP and the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said that “this is a tragedy that highlights the risks that FHP troopers encounter every day as they serve our state.”

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Trooper killed after hit by vehicle in north Florida: 'They rendered as much aid as they could'