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Vendor killed as trailer hits hot dog stand

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By JEFF PATTERSON

jpatterson@wfla.com

Published: August 25, 2009

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

The accident happened about 4:15 p.m. when Dennis Tintle, 16, was driving a pickup 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 Hillsborough and Taliaferro avenues.

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

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 up their business at that intersection.

The accident snarled traffic along Hillsborough Avenue for more than two hours.

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

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