Mount Pleasant Police released the details of a single vehicle crash that occurred November 4. Police were called to the 800 block of South Jefferson Street where a van had gone off the roadway. When officers arrived on the scene that found the van in the ditch with a light pole on top of it and the driver unresponsive. The driver was identified as Adam Heckenberg. It was believed he experienced a medical episode that caused him to black out while negotiating a curve in the street. The van hit a light pole when it went off street. This brought down a power line. Heckenberg was taken by ambulance to Henry County Health Center.
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