We cannot express the importance of practicing safe measures when towing or trailering your project cars. Here’s a reminder to take it slow when tying down your vehicle and exaggerate those annoying precautions like using your safety chains.
From WTOV, Steubenville, OH
December 1, 2006
An accident in a local junkyard left a Belmont County man dead.
Ken Spoon, of Belmont, was working on a car that was lifted up on a tow truck when the car slipped backwards off of the truck and landed on top of him.
Belmont County Sheriff Fred Thompson said the accident happened on Glencoe Whitney Road around 4 p.m. Thursday at Walls Junkyard.
Thompson said Spoon’s co-workers had tried to radio him for over 30 minutes before they found him under the car. The workers immediately called the coroner, who pronounced Spoon dead at the scene.
Thompson said the car did not have any safety chains and believes that is what caused the accident.
-Renee Cardelli & Amy Post, NEWS9
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