A Fayette County woman has been identified as one of two people killed in a collision involving a vehicle and a tanker truck, authorities in Nicholas County said.
However, the identity of the second victim in the Saturday’s crash has yet to be confirmed.
Vickie Akers, 51, of 56 Riverview Drive, Charlton Heights, was killed in the crash, the sheriff’s office said. She was a passenger in a 1995 Jeep Wrangler. The male driver was also killed, but Chief Deputy Wayne Plummer said the man’s identity has not been officially confirmed by the state medical examiner’s office.
The accident occurred around 3:30 a.m. on W.Va. 39 in Canvas. Apparently, the driver of the Wrangler veered left of center and struck the tanker truck head-on, the sheriff’s office said.
The Wrangler reportedly caught fire after impact, according to the Nicholas Emergency Operations Center.
The tanker truck’s driver, 63-year-old Peery M. Angles Jr., of Roanoke, Va., was not injured.
The accident remains under investigation.
— Amelia A. Pridemore
Local News
February 19, 2008
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