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Alberta man killed by logging truck

The B.C. Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who died in a motor vehicle related incident near Fraser Lake on Sunday.

The B.C. Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who died in a motor vehicle related incident near Fraser Lake on Sunday.

He is Jacob Wadsworth Low, 23, of Mannville, Alberta, a small community about 170 kilometres east of Edmonton, the Coroners Service said Tuesday.

Low and a co-worker were driving an empty logging truck into a camp along the Holy Cross logging road in the early afternoon.

They stopped to deal with mechanical difficulties with the truck, in the course of which Low was run over by the truck.

He was declared dead at the scene.