A Southwick man has died after a crash in Ohio, where his beekeeping company was working this week.

William Crawford, 35, the founder of New England Apiaries, was working alongside a road in Oregon, Ohio, around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday when the forklift he was using to help other workers load a company vehicle was struck by a 20-year-old driving a Chevy Silverado pickup truck, local TV news station WTOL reported . He was taken to the hospital and later died.

The driver of the truck was wearing a seatbelt and uninjured, according to WTOL, and the crash remains under investigation.

Crawford, who was known locally as the creator of Billy C’s Raw Honey, told MassLive in 2017 that he had first gotten interested in beekeeping in 2005 at 15 years old, when he took a course offered by a regiona

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