A Delaware man is dead after he was impaled by a tow hook that crashed through the windshield of a tractor trailer.
On Saturday around 8:45 a.m., George Lynam Jr., 66, of Middletown, Delaware was behind the wheel of a tractor-trailer fully loaded with corn that was stuck in a muddy field on the north side of Marl Pit Road in Middletown.
Robert Baker, 64, of Odessa, tried to tow the tractor-trailer out of the mud by using a farm tractor attached to a grain hopper.
As the tractor trailer was being pulled from the muddy field, the tow hook broke loose off the back of the grain hopper and was propelled through the driver’s side window, striking Lynam in the upper torso.
Lynam was taken to the Christiana Hospital Trauma Center where he was later pronounced dead.
Baker wasn’t hurt during the incident.
