{"id":347365,"date":"2021-10-02T10:12:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T07:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/alaska-man-thomas-arrington-killed-when-debris-pierces-windshield-in-freak-accident\/"},"modified":"2021-10-02T10:12:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T07:12:59","slug":"alaska-man-thomas-arrington-killed-when-debris-pierces-windshield-in-freak-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/alaska-man-thomas-arrington-killed-when-debris-pierces-windshield-in-freak-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"#Alaska man Thomas Arrington killed when debris pierces windshield in freak accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Alaska man Thomas Arrington killed when debris pierces windshield in freak accident<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>An Alaska man vacationing in New England was killed Friday when a large piece of metal suddenly smashed through the windshield of his rental car, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Arrington, 69, was heading north on I-95 near Danvers, Massachusetts around 8:23 a.m. when debris fell out of a dump truck on the same side of the highway, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mspnews.org\/2021\/10\/01\/state-police-investigating-fatal-incident-in-danvers\/\">according to Massachusetts State Police<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The piece of metal, identified as a screed, a tool used to level and smooth freshly poured concrete, struck Arrington, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing with a 68-year old female passenger.<\/p>\n<p>Though severely injured, Arrington was able to veer his rented Ford Fusion into another lane and stop the car. He was pronounced dead at the scene by first responders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Arrington, of Palmer, Alaska, and the woman had just arrived in Massachusetts a day earlier for a planned vacation.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Thomas_Arrington.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Arrington, who had arrived in Massachusetts for a vacation, was 69 years old. \" class=\"wp-image-19674152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Thomas_Arrington.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Thomas_Arrington.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Thomas_Arrington.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Thomas_Arrington.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Arrington, who had arrived in Massachusetts for a vacation, was 69 years old. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Family Photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Police determined that the screed came from a 2020 Ford F550 dump truck, operated by a 21-year-old man working for a Massachusetts construction company. 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Thomas Arrington, 69, was heading north on I-95 near Danvers, Massachusetts around 8:23 a.m. when debris&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":347366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Alaska_Man.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[116947,24459,71724,70736,77120,70939,12115],"class_list":["post-347365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-2-21","tag-alaska","tag-car-accidents","tag-deaths","tag-freak-accidents","tag-massachusetts","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}