Briefly: Retired trucker wins $1 million in Massachusetts State Lottery
A longtime truck driver just lately hit it huge within the Massachusetts State Lottery.
Paul Bashaw, a 20-year trucker from West Boylston, received $1 million taking part in a $20 scratch ticket from the sport “$5,000,000 100X Cashword”.
He informed his employer on July 17 that he was retiring in two weeks. He purchased the successful ticket three days later and completed out his time on the job.
He claimed his winnings July 28.
Bashaw took the choice of receiving his winnings in a lump sum cost of $650,000.
He informed the lottery fee he was going to make use of the cash to journey.
Driver dies in collision with freight prepare
A 25-year-old truck from Borger, Texas died when his tractor-trailer was struck by a prepare in rural west Texas.
Brent Michael Spahich was on Freeway 84 two miles west of Amherst Monday, July 31, when he crossed railroad tracks. His truck was struck by a Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight prepare.
Spahich died on the best way to an area hospital.
5 automobiles of the prepare had been derailed. Nobody on the prepare was injured.
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