Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins was stranded on a Florida highway and looking for gas before he was struck and killed by a dump truck on April 9, according to a panicked 911 call from his wife, Kalabrya.
In the 911 call, which was obtained by radio host Andy Slater, Kalabrya says she is calling from Pittsburgh about 10 minutes after speaking with her husband, a backup Steelers quarterback, in the early morning of April 9.
She explained that the 24-year-old Haskins told her he was stranded on a highway in Broward County, Florida and was walking to find gas. He allegedly told Kalabrya that he would call her when he was finished, but she never received a call.
‘He said he was going to call me back after he finished putting the gas in,’ she told the 911 operator.
‘I kept calling and kept calling,’ Kalabyra continued. ‘He wasn’t answering. Eventually, after 10 minutes of calling the phone, eventually it cut off. It’s not working now. I had his location. I just want somebody to go in the area and see if his car is there and if he’s OK and if anything happened to him.
‘It’s not like him not to call me back.’
It’s not publicly known if Haskins’ car was out of gas when it was recovered. Florida Highway Patrol did not immediately return DailyMail.com’s request for more information.
Kalabrya Haskins and Dwayne Haskins pictured on Instagram before his death on April 9
Witness Chris Stanley says he saw cars veer to the side to avoid hitting a man who was walking into traffic with his arms slightly raised. Authorities are still investigating the crash
Police say Haskins was attempting to cross I-595 in Fort Lauderdale around 6:30am on April 9
A short time later, the operator told Kalabrya that there was a collision in the area.
‘I don’t want you to panic, but I’m going to be honest with you,’ the dispatcher said. ‘We do have an incident on the highway — but I can’t confirm if that’s your husband or not.’
Sounding as though she was fighting back tears, Kalabrya asked ‘do you have a description of him?’
The operator told her that police were en route to the scene of the accident.
A separate 911 call includes a witness saying she saw a man get hit by a dump truck.
‘There was a man hit in front of me. I was traveling on the road and I saw a dump truck hit the man,’ she said.
One of the 911 calls was from a woman who can be heard warning someone, presumably Haskins, to get out of the road.
‘Oh my God,’ the woman exclaimed. ‘What the f*** is wrong with you? Get the f*** out of the road!’
A former standout at Ohio State, Haskins was a backup for the Steelers last season
Haskins was killed in the early morning of April 9 when he was struck by a dump truck along I-595 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he had been training with teammates.
Although his wife’s 911 call may shed some light on the circumstances, it is not definitively known what Haskins was doing on the side of a highway when he was struck.
‘Mr. Haskins was walking on a limited access facility Highway/expressway for unknown reasons,’ Florida Highway patrol said in a statement. ‘He was attempting to cross the westbound lanes of Interstate 595 when there was oncoming traffic. Unfortunately, he collided with an oncoming dump truck.’
Haskins pictured with wife Kalabrya
An investigation is ongoing.
A man claimed he saw Haskins walk into traffic with his arms raised minutes before he was fatally struck.
Chris Stanley, who was on his way back from dropping off his daughter at the Fort Lauderdale airport, says he was so shocked that he called 911.
He remembers cars drifting into his lane to avoid hitting the former first-round pick.
‘He was about halfway to a quarter way in the right lane, already onto the highway, and I was already concerned that somebody was going to strike him right there at that moment,’ Stanley told WTVJ.
He called 911 at 6:31am, according to a call log shared with the station. That’s six minutes before the Florida Highway Patrol says the accident was reported at 6:37am.
Haskins, who would have been 25 next month, was a first-round pick by Washington in 2019 after an impressive career at Ohio State that included First-team All-Big Ten honors and the Sammy Baugh Trophy, which is awarded annually to college football’s best quarterback.
Over the weekend, Ohio State paid tribute to Haskins with a memorial video at the annual Buckeye spring game.
One of Haskins’s former teammates, wide receiver Kamryn Babb, led a team prayer for their fallen friend as the 60,000 fans in attendance watched.
A fan reacts during a candlelight vigil in memory of Dwayne Haskins at Ohio Stadium on April 12, 2022 in Columbus, Ohio. Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback and former Ohio State Buckeye Dwayne Haskins, 24, died April 9 after he was struck by a dump truck while walking on a South Florida highway
