Friday, June 12, 2015

HEART ATTACK, NOT TREE CRASH, KILLED VENDING MACHINE DELIVERY DRIVER IN BERRIEN COUNTY, MICHIGAN




JUNE 11, 2015

BERRIEN COUNTY, MI 

A delivery driver who was believed to have been killed during a single-vehicle collision in Berrien County Thursday afternoon actually died of a heart attack, police said.

Scot Dailey, 52, of Schoolcraft, was making deliveries to local vending machines at 2:30 p.m. Thursday when his truck veered off the road and struck an electrical transfer tower at Sodus Parkway and Edwards Street, in Sodus Township, a news release issued by the Berrien County Sheriff's Office said.

Seeing the truck, a passerby flagged down an off-duty sheriff's lieutenant for help, who later found Dailey "slumped over the steering wheel unconscious," the release said.

Emergency crews removed Dailey from his vehicle and performed CPR, though authorities pronounced him dead at the scene.

During the investigation, police learned Daily called his employer before the collision and said he wasn't feeling well and was having chest pains, according to the release.

The Berrien County Medical Examines Office later ruled Dailey died of a heart attack. 

The Michigan State Police and Sodus Township Fire Department assisted at the scene.