It’s a Happy New Year for Truck Driver, who is $2.2 Million Richer
A 39-year-old truck driver from Parkville, Maryland, hit it big in the Maryland Lottery last week — and it’s not the first time he has done so.
While buying gas, the unidentified driver purchased a Multi-Match ticket at a Safeway in Waldorf on Christmas Day and later claimed a $2.85 million prize. He chose the cash option instead, taking home more than $2.2 million.
Maryland does not require its lottery winners to reveal themselves. The winning numbers were 2, 6, 13, 18, 23 and 24. Multi-Match is a $2 in-state game.
Lottery officials said the man told them he has been playing Multi-Match since 2006, buying tickets along his truck route. The stroke of good fortune came more than nine years after he captured a smaller, but still significant, Maryland Lottery prize.
"I was here in 2005 when I won a $250,000 second-tier Mega Millions prize," he told Lottery officials. "It's great to be back."
“We’ll get someone who wins more than once occasionally, but maybe not to this degree,” Carole Everett, a spokeswoman for the Maryland Lottery, told the Washington Post. “I can’t recall a time that we’ve had the same person win this big twice.”
The first time, the man said, he made a down payment on a house with his winnings. Now he plans to pay off his house, take a vacation and put some money away for his two sons, the Lottery said in a release.
No word on whether he intends to keep his trucking job.
