Monrovian Dies in Lake Tahoe Accident

Published: Thursday, September 10th, 2009

144DixonMark Dickson was killed in a bizarre accident last week at the Heavenly Lake Tahoe SKi resort.  He and his new wife Rebecca were on their honeymoon.  They had planned to resettle in the Lake Tahoe area

Mark and Rebecca had riden the chair lift to the top and were on the return trip down the mountain when a rope from the zip which parraleled the chair life tangled with their gondola.

  According to Lt. Les Lovell of the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department which is investigating the accident, the rope somehow whipped away from the zip line and tipped the gondola n which Mark and his wife were riding.  Marke was thrown from the gondola and the rope wrapped around Rebecca.  She was kept in the gondola.  He fell to this death.

According the Lovell the investigation is continuing and should conclude shortly.

View Marks Obituary here.

Posted by Monrovia Weekly on Sep 10th, 2009 and filed under Latest News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response by filling following comment form or trackback to this entry from your site

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