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Tuesday, October 01, 1996 Page: 3A
Officials identity man who died in I-81 accident
Wilkes-Barre man was killed
Sunday while walking near
Exit 44 of I-81 Sunday nightHANOVER TWP. — The man who was hit and killed
while walking near Exit 44 of Interstate 81 Sunday night has been identified
as 17-year-old Joshua J. Parsons, of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County Deputy
Coroner Joseph Shaver said Monday night.
State police at Dunmore said Richard R. Danko of Phillips Street,
Nanticoke, was southbound in the right lane of I-81 in a Nissan 300ZX and was
unable to avoid striking Parsons.
Police said the driver then stopped on state Route 29 in the grassy area of
Exit 1. Parsons, of 69 N. Sherman St., was pronounced dead at the scene.
Shaver said the cause of death was multiple traumatic injuries. He said the
manner of death still was under investigation.
Police said initially that charges are pending but that none had been filed
as of Monday night.