Leads 5: Pipefitter/Car Crash

Immediate ID Leads
Duane La Chance, 55, was hospitalized for third degree burns after accidentally touching a power line carrying 15,000 volts with a piece of angle iron.

James W. Cunning, 20, is in satisfactory condition after a head on collision with Wayne Clay, 19, on U.S. 63.

Delayed Leads
The power plant was getting a new roof and all was going according to plan until Duane La Chance, 55, one of the pipe fitters on the job, touched a live power wire carrying 15,000 volts.

Two young men were in a head on accident on U.S. 63 one-tenth of a mile north of Blue Ridge Road. Wayne Clay, 19, crossed the center line and struck the Ford Focus carrying James W. Cunning, 20, according to the Lincoln County Sheriffs Department.