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LASHBROOKS, Freddie Harold, 44.West Baden Spring, died at 1:45 P.M. Wednesday. Oct. 28, of injuries sustained in an accident on U.S. 50 west of Mitchell..
Born Nov. 27,1953, in Washington County, he was the son of Coy Lee and Bessie Glass Lashbrooks
He was employed by Shelby Trucking of Mitchell.
Surviving are one son. Cory Lashbrooks, French Lick; his mother. Bessie Lashbrooks, West Baden Springs; two brothers. Dale Lashbrooks, Salem and Ralph Wayne Lashbrooks, Jeffersonville; and one sister, Joyce Lashbrooks, West Baden Springs.
Funeral services were held Saturday at the Brosmer-Drabing Funeral Home Inc. Chapel with Pastor Douglas Finney officiating. Burial was in the Mt. Lebanon Cemetery.
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Dump truck, semi collide; 1 driver dies
By KRYSTAL ALLEN
Times-Mall Staff Writer
SHOALS - A West Baden man was killed when a dump truck and semi-trailer collided on U.S. 50 just east of Shoals on Half-Mlle Curve about 1:15 PM, Wednesday.
Freddie H. Lashbrook, 44, was pronounced dead at the scene by Orange County Coroner Charles Tabor, He was driving a dump truck owned by Shelby Trucking in Mitchell.
The driver of the semi-tractor and trailer, Robert A. Day of Elklns, W, Va., was not transported to the hospital, according to the Martin County Sheriff's Department.
Mary Holt, a Shelby Trucking representative, said Lashbrooks was a quiet man who came in and just did his job,
Holt said Lashrook had worked for SheIby for about three months before the accident.
According to the Investigating officer, T.A. Burkhardt, Lashbrook was traveling east on U.S. 50.
Day was traveling west In a 1998 Freightliner, leased by Schilli Trucking Co.. when the semi-tractor and trailer went left of the center line while in the Half-Mile Curve,
When the semi tractor and trailer traveled over the center line the load of roll paper shifted, causing the semi to proceed even farther into the east -bound lane and into the path of the dump truck, according to Burkhard's report,
The semi's trailer collided with the cab of Lashbrook's truck and, after impact, the trailer broke Into pieces, causing the load of roll paper and parts of the trailer to be thrown Into the front area of the dump truck, Burkhardt said.
Holt said funeral arrangements are pending at the Brosmer-Drabing Funeral Home In French Lick,
Assisting the sheriff's department at the scene was The Martin County Civil Defense, W&G Ambulance Service, Shoals Fire Department, the State Highway Department, National Gypsum, The Department of Natural Resources and Southwestern Medical Ambulance Service.
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