A 67-year-old Dartmouth woman was killed and a 64-year-old Bristol, RI man was hospitalized after they were struck by a box truck on Joseph Drive in Fall River.
According to Gregg Miliote of the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office, at around noon on Wednesday, the two victims, the driver of the box truck, and three others were at 214 Joseph Drive to pick up a dresser. The six individuals were all employees or volunteers for the non-profit organization known as My Brother’s Keeper, which organizes drop offs and pick-ups of donated furniture.
The preliminary investigation reveals that the driver of the box truck, a 25-year-old Taunton woman, backed the truck up and struck two volunteers who were behind it.
The deceased victim has been identified as Jean Revil. The injured man was last listed in critical but stable condition this morning at Saint Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford.
Revil was previously a theology teacher and campus minister at Bishop Stang High School. According to St Michael’s Parish in Fall River, Revil was the Director of Religious Education for Adults at the church.
The matter remains under investigation by Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the district attorney’s office and Fall River Police.
Box trucks should be driven by drivers that know how to drive them. This woman clearly did not!!
She was a pedestrian.
Maybe read the article better before you comment and show your ignorance, she was hit by the truck jot driving it. It’s a tragic situation and nobody asked for your input, doubly so because you clearly didn’t read the article well.
He was talking about the woman driving the truck.
I remember Jean when she was a student at Bridgewater-Raynham Regional HS.
May she rest in peace.
All box trucks should have cameras cause now this person is gonna live with the fact that she mistakenly harmed 2 people and 1 has passed away thats a rough thing to go through