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Trailer comes loose, kills hot dog vendor

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A hot dog vendor has died after she was struck by a trailer on Hillsborough Avenue.

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Published: August 24, 2009

Updated: 08/24/2009 10:12 pm

TAMPA - A woman hot dog vendor was killed and a man seriously injured when they were struck by a runaway trailer on Hillsborough and Taliaferro avenues on Monday afternoon, Tampa police said.

The accident happened about 4:15 p.m. when Dennis Tintle, 16, was driving a pickup truck west on Hillsborough, towing a riding lawnmower on a trailer. The trailer came loose from the truck and went barreling toward a former gas station at the corner of Hillsborough and Taliaferro.

In the parking lot at the intersection the operators of the hot dog vending business - 40-year-old Catalina Delcarmen Allmon of San Benito, Texas, and 42-year-old Vicente Quintero of Plant City - were setting up their small stand when the errant trailer slammed into them.

Allmon was pronounced dead at the scene. Quintero was taken to Tampa General Hospital with what were described as non-life threatening injuries, police said.

Police said the two had just recently decided to open their business at that intersection and were setting it up when the accident happened.

The accident snarled traffic along that stretch of Hillsborough for more than two hours.

Tintle was cited for failing to secure his trailer. Tampa police detectives also are investigating the accident.

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