Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, July 2, 1990                   TAG: 9007020136
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
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SEPARATE ACCIDENTS CLAIM LIVES OF TWO MEN

James O. Perkins, 50, of Swords Creek, died Saturday night when the car he was driving ran off the left side of Virginia 67 in Russell County and down an embankment, state police said.

Perkins was thrown from his car in the accident, which occurred roughly 8 miles north of Honaker at approximately 10:30 p.m.

Early Sunday morning, a pedestrian was killed while walking along U.S. 11 in Botetourt County.

Dead at the scene was Raymond Vernon Webb, 63, of Whitewood in Buchanan County.

Webb had just left a grocery store and was struck by a car as he was crossing the highway in front of the store, said investigating Trooper G.E. Ayers.

Charged with felony hit-and-run in the 2:10 a.m. incident was Steven Mays Childress of Troutville, state police said.

Police arrested Childress when he stopped at the Botetourt Sheriff's Department roughly two hours after Webb was hit and reported that he had struck a deer with his car.

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