A woman whose racist video rants and attack on a woman in a hijab and a Black teenager made international headlines earlier this month has been struck by a fire truck, reports the Citizen-Times.
Rachel Dawn Ruit, 41, suffered “life-threatening injuries” after being struck by an Asheville Fire Department pickup truck on July 13 in West Asheville, according to police and a witness. “This afternoon at approximately 1:30 p.m.
the Asheville Police Department responded to the 800 block of Patton Avenue after reports of a pedestrian being struck in the roadway,” Asheville Police Department spokeswoman Christina Hallingse said. “Upon arrival officers located a female, known to officers as Rachel Dawn Ruit, suffering from life threatening injuries.