From WKYT 27 & WYMT News..
Strange Fatal Accident In Pike County
Jan 23, 2006, 11:54 PM
A man is dead after police say he was run over by his own coal truck.
State Police say 72-year-old James Thornsbury of Castlewood, Virginia was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police say for unknown reasons... Thornsbury got out of his truck while it was still moving and was hit by it.
Police say the incident is still being investigated.
First of all, he wasn't from Castlewood, VA. He lived there for about a week. He was from Pike County, literally a stone's throw from my Mom. Second.. he didn't just get out of his truck when it was still moving for no good reason, though they said UNKNOWN reasons. I swear... I am so pissed off.
From TimesDispatch.com..
A 72-year-old Virginia man was killed after being struck by the coal truck he had been driving.
James D. Thornsbury of Castlewood, Va., was driving a coal truck southeast of Pikeville near the Kentucky-Virginia border. Kentucky State Police said he got out of the truck while it was still moving and was run over. Thornsbury was pronounced dead at the scene Monday.
No one else was hurt and the truck came to at the bottom of a hill.
James Hopkins, a spokesman for the State Police in Pikeville, said no further details on the circumstances of Thornsbury's death were immediately available. State Police are investigating the incident.
Nothing so far from the Appalachian News Express or the Virginia Mountaineer.