Tractor-trailer driver is run over by his truck and killed

A tractor-trailer driver from Laurel was killed early Saturday when he was run over by his own truck after failing to apply the parking brake at a rest stop along Interstate 95 in Howard County, Maryland State Police said. Police said the Waterloo Barrack received a call at about 7 a.m. Saturday for a pedestrian wedged between two vehicles at the rest stop near the Patuxent River Bridge. Police said a dump truck was parked at the rest area, when a tractor-trailer pulled up behind it. The tractor-trailer driver exited and began to walk between the two vehicles. The tractor-trailer drifted forward, pinning the driver between the two vehicles. The man, identified as Jose Ngoran Amoa, 64, of Laurel, was pronounced dead at the scene. Police determined that he had failed to set the parking brake on the tractor-trailer.