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.