
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 13, 1990                   TAG: 9006130388
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
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BOTETOURT DRIVER CRUSHED BY TRUCK

A 39-year-old Botetourt County man was crushed to death Tuesday after being run over by a truck from which he had just jumped.

Walter Samuel Boyd of Lithia died after falling beneath a truck at a James River Limestone quarry near Buchanan.

Clifford Wells, chairman of the board, said Boyd was driving a truck loaded with about 35 tons of material at the time of the 1:30 p.m. accident.

Boyd was driving the truck down a slight hill when he cut it toward a ditch designed to slow trucks that lose their brakes.

He jumped from the cab toward an embankment, but fell underneath the truck, Wells said.

Keywords:
FATALITY

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