Plow truck hits, kills Glenburn man in road
Friday, January 14, 2005 - Bangor Daily News
You'd think that after seventy years it would have sunk in..."look both ways before crossing the road." I'm sure his mother drilled it into him as a child. I'm sure he drilled the same lesson into his children and grandchildren.
Yet, yesterday a neighbor of mine, fixated on doing a good deed for the widow woman whose dooryard he'd just finished plowing out, crossed the road to a mailbox, gathered the mail, turned and stepped into the path of a 3/4 ton pickup truck with a snowplow mounted. The truck was doing less than the posted speed limit owing to poor road conditions. And Frank Leighton, 70, father and grandfather, became the new hood ornament for a GMC circa 6:30 Thursday morning. It's a hell of an ignominious end to an exemplary life. You'll be missed.
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