Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, November 12, 1995                   TAG: 9511130055
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: D-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ALLISON BLAKE
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

WOMAN WALKING ON I-77 HIT, KILLED

A woman walking north on Interstate 77 south of its junction with Interstate 81 was struck and killed Friday night, triggering another accident.

Margaret Elizabeth Vreeland, 48, of Endicott, N.Y., was "hitchhiking or something of that nature and was going across the interstate," when she was hit by a van filled with people returning from an arts and crafts festival in North Carolina, state Trooper J.D. Pickel said.

The van, a 1995 Mercury Villager, was driven by Joyce Anne Tittle of Castlewood, near Abingdon. She pulled into the median after striking Vreeland. A tractor-trailer then crested the hill, swerved to miss the body - which lay on the road - and struck Tittle's van, totaling the vehicle, Pickel said.

Tittle and her three passengers were treated and released from Wythe County Hospital, Pickel said. The truck driver, James Anthony Bowman of Montvale, was not injured.

The accident occurred about 9:30. No charges were filed, and Vreeland's family was notified of her death early Saturday, said Pickel.

"I assume they're en route down here."

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