NORTH TEXAS — The widow of a UPS driver who died last year is calling for safer conditions for workers as temperatures spike. Her comments follow the death of a UPS worker in Bell County Thursday and a crash Friday involving a second worker near McKinney . In both cases, there have been questions over the role heat exhaustion may have played.
“I saw the video of that driver plowing into trees and then, you know, they said, it was from the McKinney center and my heart just stopped,” said Neysa Lambeth. “I spent the entire day yesterday bawling my eyes out. I couldn’t believe it was happening again.”
Her husband, Chris Begley , was a dedicated UPS driver for 28 years.
“He showed up to our very first date in his UPS uniform,” she said.
But, working long hours in trucks with no air conditioning had its impact.
“He would literally come home and collapse in the chair for the night every day in the summertime,” said Lambeth.