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| Fontana park commissioner dead following road construction accident |
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| Written by Dan Plutchak |
| Tuesday, 13 September 2011 10:01 |
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FONTANA — A Fontana man died Monday while working on an Illinois roadway after a truck driver cut a corner too tightly and ran the man over. Daniel Green, 38, was working as a contractor for the Illinois Department of Transportation when the accident happened about 11:15 a.m. in Elmhurst, Ill. Green was three feet back from the curb on the northwest corner of York and Lake Streets in Elmhurst when the truck struck him. He was pronounced dead at the scene from massive internal injuries, said Illinois State Police told the Daily Herald. Green was a village of Fontana park commissioner and was instrumental in initiating and planning the Fontana Park Commission's annual Pig in the Park fund-raising event held on Saturday of Labor Day weekend. He had been a member of the Park Commission since September 2007, according to a village of Fontana news release. Village officials described Green as one of the hardest working volunteers the village and he always had a smile on his face when he stopped in to visit or to attend a meeting. The driver of the truck the struck Green, a 32-year-old Chicago man whose name police did not release, was cited for an improper turn, according to police. "They way he turned, his trailer went up over the curb," Illinois State Police Master Sgt. Bob Huber told the newspaper. "The worker was three feet off the roadway. The back wheels of his trailer went up over the curb."
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