Veteran training to be police officer in Springfield rescues man whose truck flipped over
Thomas Lair said he had "a lot of angels around him" on March 26. "It's a miracle I'm alive," admitted Lair, who lives in Murrayville, a village in Morgan County, about 12 miles southeast of Jacksonville. That afternoon, Lair was coming home from his job at Walmart when he failed to negotiate a turn onto Murrayville Road from U.S. 267. Lair's 2002 Ford Ranger flipped â the dashcam from Murrayville-Woodson police officer Patrick McKinnon's patrol vehicle captured it â and the truck and Lair came to rest upside down in a ditch in a pool of water. McKinnon, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran ...
Source: herald-review.com