Editor Joe Loy Dies at Accident Scene

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Joe Loy, assignment editor for Fox affiliate WHNS-TV in Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C., died Monday while covering an accident scene.

Loy was reportedly struck and killed by a van forced off the road by a pickup truck as Loy was standing next to the station's news vehicle. Loy had been covering an accident in which a tractor-trailer had spilled lumber on the southbound lanes of Interstate 85 there.

At press time, the driver of the truck said to have caused the accident was still being sought, with the station posting a picture of the truck on its Website .

Services for Loy, who had been with the station since 1999, are set for Friday.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.