MANITOBA MAN DIES AFTER BEING COVERED IN HOT TAR

Bradley Jackson, 21, was hauling a load of hot tar from Winnipeg into North Dakota when his rig went off the road, rupturing the tanker and sending the burning liquid into the cab of the truck. With tar all over his body, he managed to crawl out of the semi to wait for help, said his girlfriend Donna-Joe Smith. He spent three days in a burn unit at a Minneapolis hospital before he died Saturday. “He was a huge fighter,” Smith said. “He fought his little butt off to make sure that he could be around and he just got tired.”