Editing Highway Emergency Response Operators (section)

== Line of Duty Deaths ==
Since HERO was established in 1994, two operators have been killed in the line of duty. 

=== Georgia ===
Spencer Pass was struck and killed in January 2011 while jumping a stalled car on Interstate 85 in South Atlanta.<ref>{{cite web |title=Georgia DOT names bridge after Highway Emergency Response Operator Spencer Pass |url=https://www.equipmentworld.com/better-roads/article/14965339/georgia-dot-names-bridge-after-highway-emergency-response-operator-spencer-pass |website=Equipment World |date=23 June 2016 |access-date=31 May 2021}}</ref> In 2016, the overpass at I-85 and Cleveland Ave was renamed in his honor.<ref>{{cite web |title=Spencer Pass Memorial Bridge Named |url=http://www.dot.ga.gov/PartnerSmart/Public/PressReleases/SpencerPassMemorialBridge-6-21-16.pdf |website=Georgia Department of Transportation |access-date=31 May 2021}}</ref> 

Moses King was killed in August 2015 when he was struck by an impaired driver that crashed into him on Atlanta's I-75/I-85 while providing traffic control for an earlier accident scene. The driver was arrested at the scene.<ref>{{cite news |title=HERO worker dies six months after Downtown Connector accident |url=https://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/hero-worker-dies-six-months-after-downtown-connector-accident/vzmZptmU9D7AJNQUJLfygI/ |access-date=31 May 2021 |publisher=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=August 16, 2016}}</ref>