RAYNHAM, Mass. (AP) - Massachusetts State Police say a man who stopped his pickup truck on a highway and got out to help another motorist has been struck and killed by a passing vehicle.
A department spokesman says that at about 1 a.m. Friday an SUV heading south on Interstate 495 in Raynham apparently struck a deer and became disabled in the middle travel lane.
A second driver stopped and got out of his pickup to help.
That good Samaritan, identified as 37-year-old Luis Contreras, of Taunton, was fatally struck as he walked in the travel lanes by a third vehicle driven by a 21-year-old man.
The driver of the vehicle that struck the victim remained at the scene. No one else was hurt.
The death remains under investigation.
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