Tommie Parsons, Death – Monroe County sheriff’s deputies have identified the man who was struck and killed while working on Chili Avenue this week.
While a driveway sealing company was working around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, a company employee – Tommie Parsons, 23, of Rochester – was retrieving supplies from a truck with an attached trailer parked on Chili Avenue, near Marshall Road, in Chili, when an eastbound Jeep crashed into Parsons and the trailer, said Lt. Dean Tuthill of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
Parsons was standing behind the trailer when he was struck by the eastbound Jeep. He died at the scene.
The driver of the Jeep was ticketed for failure to exercise due care to a pedestrian in the roadway, deputies said.