Crime & Safety
Man Pinned By Car, Killed In Jack In The Box Drive Through
Charles Wood Jr. was pronounced dead at a local hospital after the freak accident.
ST. LOUIS, MO — A man died after being pinned by his car at a Jack in the Box drive through on South Grand Wednesday night, the Post-Dispatch reports.
The incident happened around 10 p.m. Twenty-year-old Charles Wood Jr. opened the door and leaned out of his car to grab his food, police said, when the car accelerated backward into a tree, pinning its driver. Wood was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
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