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Saturday, August 16, 2014Area:
Jackson, MSA truck driver is killed by electrocution, according to officials, after colliding with a power line in Rankin County.
Coroner Jimmy Roberts tells News Channel 12, the victim is 23-year-old Clarence Honer Jr. of Jackson.
It happened just after 6:30 Saturday morning on Marquette Road between the General Motors facility and Brown Bottling Group in Brandon.
Officials say the one-vehicle accident involved a box truck, and reports indicate the driver left the roadway and struck a power line.
Date:
Friday, April 11, 2014Area:
Boston, MATwo Massachusetts men working on high-tension power lines are dead after their bucket truck tipped over while they were in the basket more than 100 feet in the air.
Utility NStar says Joseph L. Boyd III, of Fall River, and John Loughran, of Quincy, had been contracted for an NStar project in Bourne, on Cape Cod.
The Bourne Police Chief told the newspaper the two men were both in the bucket when the truck toppled over. He said they were killed instantly.
Woodside said it was not particularly windy at the time of the accident and the ground under the truck appeared to be solid.