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

DATE: TUESDAY, March 12, 1991                   TAG: 9103120295
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-4   EDITION: BEDFORD/FRANKLIN 
SOURCE: Ron Brown
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

WOMAN DIES AFTER FALLING ON GLASS BOTTLES

A 45-year-old Roanoke woman died Monday afternoon after falling down some stairs and cutting her jugular vein on glass bottles she was carrying home in a grocery bag.

A spokesman for the Roanoke Police Department said Joy Larue Davis of the 500 block of Church Avenue Southwest was pronounced dead at Roanoke Memorial Hospital after the 4:11 p.m. accident.

She was walking up the front steps of an apartment house when she apparently lost balance and fell on the bottles, the police spokesman said.

Wanda Reed, manager of Roanoke Emergency Medical Services, said witnesses told rescue workers that Davis had just gotten out of a cab carrying groceries when she stumbled on the steps.

by CNB