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One person said the Tempe cops told him it was a 16 year old kid that was run over by the milk truck.

Another guy that knows Mike said he said the guy in the street and went over to help him. He said the guy was too smashed up to be alive, or to identify.

After that he went to where Mike lives and found him alive, but sleeping.

Also the Arizona Republic ran an article identifying the guy and they said it was Keith Thomas.

Sounds like Mike got killed yesterday around 4pm at Hardy & Broadway.

Some guy was killed yesterday in an accident at Hardy & Broadway in Tempe.

I suspect it was Mike the homeless guy that lives in that area. Mike often panhandles on the corner of Broadway & Hardy.

I wonder if this Keith Thomas guy is Mike.

I got there around 6 pm, and there was a dead body on the southwest corner of Hardy & Broadway.

One of the people that was there gawking told me it was on old guy with a walker. He said he was run over by one of those milk trucks that delivers milk to the United Dairymen business on the same corner.

That's not a wimpy milk truck used to deliver milk to residents, but a large semi truck with milk tanker union on the back.

Yazzi died on the same street corner a year or two ago.

Bennet Yazzi was a homeless Navajo Indian. Some people say Yazzi committed suicide by jumping in front of the car that killed him.

In fact Mike, the guy who I think was killed yesterday, also was there when Yazie got killed.

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Pedestrian struck and killed by semitruck in Tempe

Dani Coble, Arizona Republic Published 7:11 p.m. MT Dec. 12, 2018 | Updated 10:19 p.m. MT Dec. 12, 2018

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a semitruck in Tempe late Wednesday afternoon, police said.

The crash occurred at Hardy Drive and Broadway Road, Tempe police said.

Police said the victim was an adult male, but his identity was not released late Wednesday.

The driver of the truck remained at the scene and is cooperating with the investigation, Tempe police said.

Further details, including the company operating the truck, were not available late Wednesday.

Police posted on Twitter about 5:30 p.m. that the intersection was closed to traffic. About 6 p.m., traffic was opened for drivers traveling west on Broadway, police said.

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Pedestrian struck by semitruck identified by Tempe police

Ali Phillips, Arizona Republic Published 12:06 p.m. MT Dec. 13, 2018

Tempe police identified a pedestrian who was struck and killed Wednesday by a semitruck as Keith Thomas.

Tempe police and Tempe Fire Medical Rescue responded to a semitruck and pedestrian collision Wednesday afternoon at Broadway Road and Hardy Drive.

Thomas, 56, was the pedestrian pronounced dead, according to Liliana Duran, a spokeswoman for Tempe Police Department.

The semitruck belonged to United Dairymen of Arizona, which issued a statement.

"First and foremost, our hearts are heavy by this terrible tragedy and our thoughts are with all involved," the United Dairymen of Arizona stated in an email. "We are working with law enforcement as needed during the investigation. Since the investigation is still ongoing, any details will have to come from Tempe PD."

The semitruck driver remained at the scene and is cooperating with investigators.

There was no sign of impairment, according to police.