MONTESANO, WA
Grays Harbor County sheriff's Deputy Dave Pimentel (PIM'-en-tel)
said Monday 50-year-old Roy Messenger was not seriously hurt after
he collided with a power pole Friday and called a relative to pull
his car from a ditch.
However, family members found Messenger electrocuted when they
arrived.
Pimentel says Messenger apparently urinated into a roadside
ditch but didn't see the live wire. The urine stream likely served
as a conductor, allowing the electricity to reach his body.
Pimentel says there will be an autopsy but burn marks indicated
the way the electricity traveled through Messenger's body.
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