Man Dies On Way To Brother's Funeral

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Man dies when struck by his car on way to brother's funeral

3/15/2008, 12:25 a.m. EDT
The Associated Press


MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man heading to his brother's funeral was killed after a funeral home employee accidentally put the man's Jeep in reverse and hit him.

Authorities say 59-year-old Leslie Mathews died Friday morning. He was hit in the parking lot of the Galone Caruso Funeral Home in Mount Pleasant.

A Westmoreland County deputy coroner says 73-year-old Edward Frederick had been moving Mathews' Jeep into the funeral procession. He inadvertently put the vehicle in reverse.

Mathews was pinned between his Jeep and an SUV his grandson drove.

No charges have been filed. The coroner and police are investigating and an autopsy is pending.

Mount Pleasant is about 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

Bill

damn shame is all I can say. Hope they give him a discount for his funeral. Then again, if they handle his funeral how many family members will show up??

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Wow!

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If it's true that bad luck comes in threes, probably no one.

That guy must feel awful.

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This happened here in NC. It is just a shame.




Soldier Charged in Death of Girl, 9, in Funeral Procession


Posted: Mar. 15, 2008
Updated: Today at 11:25 a.m.
Raeford, N.C. — A soldier faces charges in a Hoke County accident that killed a a 9-year-old girl who was riding in her grandmother's funeral procession and injured 13 others.
The Highway Patrol said David Deming, 32, had just graduated from sniper school at Fort Bragg and was driving to his Colorado home on Friday when his truck went across the center line on Aberdeen Road and side-swiped two limousines in the procession. Deming was reaching for a Mountain Dew soda at the time, troopers said.
Cheyenne Thomas, 9, of Ash in Brunswick County, was riding in the second limo and died from injuries sustained in the crash, troopers said.
The collision overturned the limousines, which had been headed toward Clinton. Deming’s truck also ran head-on into another truck that was behind the limos.
Deming was treated at a hospital and released, and troopers charged him with misdemeanor death by vehicle and driving left of center. Alcohol was not a factor, they said.
“I thought we were the only ones who had gotten hit, but my brother, Michael, came running and screaming, 'Cheyenne's gone, Cheyenne's gone,'” crash victim Lynn Jackson said.
Richard Thomas, who was also in the second limo, was flown to UNC Hospitals, where he was listed in critical condition Saturday night.
“You think this is something to happen to somebody else and it doesn't happen to your family, but it can,” Jackson said.
Jackson said it is hard to believe she has now lost her niece and her mother, Freedonia Horne, to whose funeral they were traveling.
“My mother has yet to be buried. We have another funeral we're going to have to go to," she said.
Jackson said she knows accidents happen and is not angry at Deming.

dkillianjr

I heard about the PA incident ,what a shame. Wow that NC incedent is terrible too. It really makes you think.



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Did they use the same casket?

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