Blooming Grove fatal accident victim was from Monroe

(photo: Jim Lennon, MHNN)

BLOOMING GROVE – State Police have identified the victim of a Sunday
afternoon crash in Blooming Grove as John Beck of Monroe.

Trooper Steven Nevel said Beck, 53, was driving a pickup truck at around
4:13 p.m. on Route 208 when he failed to negotiate a curve near Museum
Village Road, ran down an embankment and struck a tree.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

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