An­na Lisa Paul

A Moru­ga man died in­stant­ly on Sun­day evening af­ter the truck he was us­ing to haul logs went over a precipice along the To­co Main Road.

The vic­tim was 53-year-old Ter­ry Chance of Rochard Dou­glas Road, St Mary’s Vil­lage.

The crash hap­pened around 6 p.m. near Mo­ra Trace South Bank Road in Tom­pire, To­co.

Wit­ness­es told po­lice that Chance was head­ing east along the trace in a white Mack truck with a trail­er full of logs when one of the rear wheels clipped the edge of the road. The truck and trail­er went straight over the precipice.

The ve­hi­cle re­port­ed­ly flipped about four times as it tum­bled down­hill, throw­ing Chance out.

When of­fi­cers got to the scene, they found the truck and trail­er about 60 feet down the slope. Chance’s body was ly­ing about ten feet from the wreck.

He was a li­censed firearm hold­er. Po­lice found his Glock 43 pis­tol with a mag­a­zine and ten rounds of 9 mm am­mo a short dis­tance away and were able to se­cure it.

Fire of­fi­cers from the San­ta Cruz Fire Sta­tion made their way down the slope and re­cov­ered his body.