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

DATE: FRIDAY, April 19, 1991                   TAG: 9104190758
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Ron Brown
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

VINTON TRUCK DRIVER KILLED IN ACCIDENT

The driver of a tractor-trailer died Thursday near Moneta when the rig overturned and burned, state police said.

Timothy A. Buzzo, 24, of the 800 block of Washington Avenue, Vinton, 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.

Keywords:
FATALITY

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