Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A Border Patrol agent who was killed while in a rollover accident on duty was not wearing a seatbelt, the Arizona Daily Star reports.
Agent Alexander Irving Giannini was driving a Dodge patrol truck on Interstate 10 in Arizona on Wednesday morning when “the truck’s left rear tire failed when the tread separated from the tire,” said Officer Carrick Cook, a state Department of Public Safety spokesman.
“The truck rotated clock wise and traveled right and off of the asphalt portion of the roadway,” Cook said. “When the truck entered the right dirt shoulder, it began to roll over.”
While Giannini, 24, was ejected, the passenger Agent Van Keith Hartwigsen was wearing a seatbelt and remained in the truck while it rolled.
Hartwigsen suffered “minor injuries and is expected to have a full recovery,” said Agent Nicole Ballistrea, a spokeswoman for the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector.
