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Gareth Davis Sr wrote a heart-rending article in The Gleaner on January 2. Former market vendor Novellete Fuller was the subject. She was a passenger in a truck that crashed in Portland’s Rio Grande Valley in December 2008. Fourteen persons were...

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Market truck crash victim cries foul - Simpson disappointed with compensation 12 years after tragedy


Linford Jackson, whose right leg was pinned down for hours by a market truck in the Rio Grande Valley in Portland after a crash in 2008, now walks with a limp and is unable to do as much farming as he once did.
RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Portland:
Linford Jackson, a farmer who was pinned underneath a market truck for the better part of six hours during a horrific truck accident on December 19, 2008, now walks with a limp and is unable to actively assume his livelihood.
It was 12 years ago that Jackson also pleaded with a nurse to cut off his leg because of the excruciating pain he felt lying beneath the weight of the market truck, which had plunged over a precipice at Dam Bridge in the Rio Grande Valley of Portland.

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