Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, April 19, 1991                   TAG: 9104190407
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Ron Brown
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

TRACTOR-TRAILER DRIVER DIES IN CRASH

The driver, whose identity was withheld until next of kin were notified, was traveling north on Virginia 122 when the truck went out of control shortly after 4:30 p.m.

It crossed a double yellow line on the two-lane highway about three miles north of Moneta, went down a slight embankment and crashed into a tree.

The truck was carrying lumber, which spilled along the road, Trooper M.W. Rorer said.

The fire gutted the cab of the truck, which belonged to George Woolridge, a Vinton man who owns several rigs, Rorer said. Woolridge said the truck had picked up a load of lumber from Blue Ridge Wood Preservers in Moneta and was heading to Martinsburg, W.Va.

State police motor-carrier inspectors checked the rig for mechanical defects but found nothing conclusive, Rorer said.

Keywords:
FATALITY