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Westford family files suit against National Grid after backhoe accident that killed grandmother

By Colin A. Young

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 18, 2012

A Westford family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against National Grid following an August 2011 incident in which a woman was crushed to death by a backhoe that fell off a trailer and landed on the family’s van on Interstate 495 in Southborough. Sharon Wang, her two children, and her mother, Xiaoyun Jiang, were trapped inside their Toyota Sienna minivan when a backhoe fell off flatbed trailer landed on top of the van.

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