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Another rural carrier dies in accident on the route

Portage resident Jessica D. Halverson, 22, died Monday after her vehicle rolled over and crashed on Old Highway U in the town of Caledonia, according to the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office.

Halverson was driving a 2001 Chevy Blazer from the right front passenger seat as part of her employment as a rural route delivery person with the U.S. Postal Service. She was the only person in the car and was pronounced deceased at the scene of the crash.

A 911 call was received at 3:37 p.m. Monday about the crash about one-third of a mile south of Potter Road.

Halverson was ejected and not breathing at the time of the call. Witnesses to the crash performed CPR while emergency responders were en route.

According to a preliminary investigation, the vehicle was traveling north on Old County Highway U Road, left the road to the right and continued for 400 feet until coming back onto the roadway. The vehicle then left the roadway on the left side, went down a steep ditch and into a cornfield and overturned, ejecting her from the vehicle.

The vehicle came to a rest on its wheels about 30 yards off the roadway in a plowed farm field.

Alcohol and speed are not considered factors in the crash.

Halverson was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, the Sheriff’s Office said.

The crash remains under investigation by the Sheriff’s Office and the Columbia County Medical Examiner’s Office and the U.S. Postal Service.

via Woman who died in single-vehicle crash identified : Portage Daily Register.

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Mary Lou Stone
Mary Lou Stone
8 years ago

So very sad. Rip poor girl. Prayers for your family and friends. So young.

Tyrrone Grines
Tyrrone Grines
8 years ago

My prayers are lifted 46060

Chelsea Lanius
Chelsea Lanius
8 years ago

So sad. Prayers for the family. I’m starting to see these stories way too often, which one time is too much, but everyone stay safe.

Julie Temple
Julie Temple
8 years ago

How sad. Rest in Peace.

Jesse Koleszar
Jesse Koleszar
8 years ago

RIP… thoughts and prayers for the family

Sheila Blackwell
Sheila Blackwell
8 years ago

Praying for the family!

Matt McMahon
Matt McMahon
8 years ago

RIP

Melinda Branch
Melinda Branch
Reply to  Matt McMahon
8 years ago

Our thoughts and prayers for the family!

Teresa Hughes Lemoine
Teresa Hughes Lemoine
8 years ago

Prayers :'( very young

Valerie Nelson
Valerie Nelson
8 years ago

Stay safe, Julie.

Liana Berge
Liana Berge
8 years ago

Driving a left hand drive vehicle from the right side is just plain dangerous. The USPS should not allow this. Very sad

Lisa Parrish
Lisa Parrish
8 years ago

So sad 🙁 more and more deaths in our job..prayers from 27205..

Adrianna Lopez
Adrianna Lopez
8 years ago

No seatbelt… So young … Sucks!! All for the job….May she RIP… Seatbelts should be required as well as Llvs to rural carriers.

Carol Cummings
Carol Cummings
8 years ago

So sad! R I P and prayers of comfort to family and friends!

Teri Slavik
Teri Slavik
8 years ago

Oh no! So young.

Betsy Landry-Ambrose
Betsy Landry-Ambrose
8 years ago

RIP. Sounded like driving in the middle to me which is impossible to wear a seatbelt. Should not be a manor of delivery anyway. Such a shame.

Jan Steinborn Banasiak
Jan Steinborn Banasiak
8 years ago

Was she driving in the middle. Or was it a right hand drive ppv? I couldn’t tell in the report… Very very sad.

Joanne Crockett Lambert
Joanne Crockett Lambert
8 years ago

so sorry prayers for fa,ily

NC Mail Woman
NC Mail Woman
8 years ago

She wasn’t wearing a seat belt because she was driving her personal vehicle like thousands of us rural carriers do. If the USPS would buy us vehicles, we wouldn’t have to drive in this dangerous manner but it’s probably not going to happen in my lifetime. One of the carriers in our office was killed in a similar fashion. Our newspaper also said he wasn’t wearing his seat belt.

Tracy Davidson
Tracy Davidson
8 years ago

This is horrible news. Her family and co-workers are in my prayers.

Sandy Marie Cheshire
Sandy Marie Cheshire
8 years ago

So sad. Praying for her family 73716

Traci Hudnall Duke
Traci Hudnall Duke
8 years ago

So sad, way to young. Thoughts and prayers for this girls family.

Christy Charles
Christy Charles
8 years ago

So sorry to hear…

Laura Harmon
Laura Harmon
8 years ago

Prayers for all involved. Such a tragic preventable accident. 37064

Mary O'Keefe Wooley
Mary O'Keefe Wooley
8 years ago

Prayers to the family

Thomas J Kolczynski
Thomas J Kolczynski
8 years ago

I always wonder if the carrier was taking DPS to the street when I read these, and if so, was it because management was making them. Also wonder is she was a RCA, or regular carrier. RIP

Road Runner
Road Runner
Reply to  Thomas J Kolczynski
8 years ago

New RCA.

Kimmerii Lackey Demore
Kimmerii Lackey Demore
8 years ago

So sad, so young. Prayers for her family.

Deborah Sharp Taft
Deborah Sharp Taft
8 years ago

Praying for the family

Jaci Gaines
Jaci Gaines
8 years ago

Prayers to her family…RIP 🙁

Carol Penny
Carol Penny
8 years ago

Prayers. RIP. Go with GOD

Dar Schettler
Dar Schettler
8 years ago

Praying for her family & that management learns to lay off the pressure not to go over evaluation. No surprise that this tragedy happened on a Monday.

Cathy Bishop
Cathy Bishop
8 years ago

Heart breaking 🙁 53955

Scott Walker
Scott Walker
8 years ago

:-((

Judy Woodworth
Judy Woodworth
8 years ago

We are all thinking and praying for her family and friends and our usps family.
Please wear your seatbelt. It may be a ha*sle, but SO much better than this young lady being taken way to young!
Rest in Peace Jessica.
Williamstown KY 41097

Sharon Woodworth
Sharon Woodworth
8 years ago

Terrible…a precious life cut short. And all she was doing was her job.

Jill
Jill
8 years ago

Awful! And it will never end..The customer is most important in management eyes..sad that this carrier was a new RCA…She was prob trying so hard to do a good job too :* (

Leslie Eicholtz Shaffer
Leslie Eicholtz Shaffer
8 years ago

Prayers r with the family

Barbara Scott
Barbara Scott
8 years ago

Sad

older not wiser
older not wiser
8 years ago

So young, so sad, so preventable.
53913

Shanda Brock Phelps
Shanda Brock Phelps
8 years ago

So sad:( May she rest in peace 70438

modavis2011
modavis2011
8 years ago

So sad! Thoughts & prayers to her family, friends, & co-workers.
Remember; Our most important job is not the USPS but going home to our families at the end of the day. When management pushes us to be faster we need to strive to be SAFE!

DMB
DMB
8 years ago

So sad to hear this – carriers, please please wear your seat belts. It is a pain to do so but it is deadly if you do not. I wore mine with the shoulder part behind me so that I could reach stuff and lean way out to the short boxes, etc. But the lap belt is important. Prayers for the family of this carrier.

kim
kim
8 years ago

So sad to hear, alot of things could have prevented this accident, what a shame.