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| Four Inmates, One Officer Killed in Alaska |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 11/21/2002 |
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Four inmates and a corrections officer were killed Tuesday when a tractor-trailer truck crossed the center line and smashed into a van transporting prisoners, Alaska state troopers said. The crash occurred about 12:30 p.m. about 20 miles north of Seward, which is about 75 miles south of Anchorage on the Kenai Peninsula. 'All I could hear was people moaning and yells,' said Dawn Campbell, who owns a knife shop near the crash site and ran to the scene to offer help. 'It just ripped your heart out.' The driver of the van, corrections officer James Hesterberg, 48, of Wasilla, was killed. The names of the dead inmates were not immediately released. Four other people were injured, trooper spokesman Greg Wilkinson said. One of the injured, correctional officer Dennis Nilsen, 49, of Eagle River, was in stable condition. The conditions of three injured inmates were not immediately available. Wilkinson said the van was taking prisoners from a corrections facility in Palmer north of Anchorage to the Spring Creek Correctional Facility in Seward. It was raining and snowing when the truck crossed the center line and hit the southbound van, he said. The accident occurred on one of the most treacherous, and most scenic, stretches of highway in Alaska. It had just started snowing on roads when the crash occurred on a corner where collisions have been common, Campbell said. |
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