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Tow-truck driver's death highlights need to follow law

PENN TWP. — Gigi Smith’s lower lip quivered as she described her grief over losing son Andrew C. “Opie” Smith on Jan. 26. The 23-year-old was rescuing a stranded driver along Route 581 in Lemoyne just after midnight.

View full size JOHN C. WHITEHEAD/The Patriot-News, fileAn H&J tow truck carries Andrew C. Smith's casket to Evergreen Cemetery in Duncannon Tuesday, Jan. 10, 1012. Smith, 23, died on the job on after he was hit by a tractor trailer while trying to load a pickup truck onto a flatbed along Route 581 west in Lemoyne.

A tow truck operator, he was loading the driver’s pickup when he was hit by a passing tractor-trailer.

“I’m still not dealing with the fact that he’s gone,” Gigi Smith said this week at her Perdix home in Perry County, as Andrew’s 3-year-old son, Chandler, played nearby.

She picked the first national “Move Over Awareness” week — it runs April 16-22 — to ask drivers to think of her son the next time they come upon a road emergency.

Pennsylvania’s Steer Clear law requires drivers to slow down, move to the left lane and proceed cautiously when they come upon emergencies where police, firefighters, emergency medical staff and tow truck drivers are working.

“The law’s there to save people’s lives, and people are just not adhering to it,” Smith said.