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By JENNIFER H SVAN Stars and Stripes Published April 26, 2012.
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany 21 command Theater Sustainment identified the U S soldier killed in the wreck of the military convoy Tuesday on the autobahn near Bamberg as Spc Bernard Hill Jr.
Hill, 28, a power supply unit clerk with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 15th Engineer Battalion of, according to a statement released 21 new CST Thursday.
Hill, Homestead, Florida was married and had a child, said the spokesman of the 21st TSC captain Gregory Jones.
Hill was in the back of a Humvee Company convoy of 14 vehicles was hit from behind by a large cargo truck Tuesday afternoon on Autobahn A73 south of Bamberg The force of the collision pushed the Humvee in front two Humvees, killing Hill and wounding five other soldiers, officials of the US military and German police said this week.
A soldier remains in critical condition, and four are in stable condition, according to the Army News release Three of the nine horse soldiers in three Humvees involved in the accident were not injured, Jones said in a E-mail.
U S army medical personnel who were part of the convoy, were able to provide almost immediate medical assistance to wounded soldiers, according to Jones.
The truck driver 38 years old Nuremberg suffered minor injuries, according to information from the German police.
At the time of the accident the train was traveling from Schweinfurt, where the soldiers were stationed at Grafenw h for a military training exercise, the statement said.
The convoy was traveling about 31 to 37 miles per hour, a spokesman for the German police said Wednesday.
The accident is under investigation A spokesman of the German police announced Wednesday that s does not believe that the driver of the truck hit the train deliberately.
Bardo Backert, the prosecutor in Bamberg German leader said Thursday he could not give more details about the accident because of the ongoing investigation, he plans to take about two months.
The truck driver could face probation or up to five years in prison, according to the results of the investigation, said Backert.
AUS Army Humvee is in ruins after being hit by a civilian truck on the autobahn near Bamberg, Germany, on Tuesday, a US soldier was killed and five others were injured The truck driver, Nuremberg, was slightly injured Courtesy of Ronald Rinklef.
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