SOUTHWICK, Mass. (WWLP) - A beekeeper from Southwick was struck and killed by a vehicle while operating farm equipment in Ohio on Wednesday.

In a police report 22News obtained from the Oregon Police Department in Ohio, at around 1:26 a.m. on Wednesday, officers were called to Brown Road for a report of a vehicle crash. The report says that a Chevy Silverado was traveling eastbound when it struck a fork-style farm vehicle traveling in the same direction from behind.

The driver in the farm vehicle was ejected, and then it went off the road and overturned. He was taken to the St. Vincent Hospital for serious injuries, where he later died. He was identified as 35-year-old William (Billy) Crawford of Southwick, Massachusetts.

Crawford is the owner of New England Apiaries on Klaus Anderson Ro

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