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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Ariana Baio

Kentucky woman was picked up by a garbage truck’s grappler claw and crushed, her family’s lawyer says

Tyrah Adams was in a trash-ridden alleyway when a Louisville Public Works garbage truck picked her up, causing lethal blunt-force and compressional trauma - (Wave3)

The family of a Kentucky woman, who was killed after a garbage truck accidentally picked her up, plans to pursue legal action against the city after the county coroner confirmed the woman’s cause of death was blunt force and compressional trauma.

For weeks, Louisville police asserted that 35-year-old Tyrah Adams died after having “come into contact” with a garbage truck during a “routine” cleanup in an alley.

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