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MoDOT worker struck and killed

June 30, 2021 Citizen Staff Report

DENNIS SHARKEY/Citizen photo A Platte County Sheriff’s deputy directs traffic at the intersection of Highways 273 and 371 in Tracy on Monday morning, June 28, after a Missouri Department of Transportation worker was struck while putting up signs closing the highway due to flooding. The victim was 18-year veteran Lloyd Crawford, 61. The driver of the vehicle stopped at the accident scene. — DENNIS SHARKEY/Citizen photo
A Platte County Sheriff’s deputy directs traffic at the intersection of Highways 273 and 371 in Tracy on Monday morning, June 28, after a Missouri Department of Transportation worker was struck while putting up signs closing the highway due to flooding. The victim was 18-year veteran Lloyd Crawford, 61. The driver of the vehicle stopped at the accident scene.

Lloyd Crawford, a longtime Missouri Department of Transportation maintenance worker in the Kansas City District, died early Monday, June 28 in the line of duty.