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

DATE: TUESDAY, November 1, 1994                   TAG: 9501040118
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG                                 LENGTH: Short

TRACTOR-TRAILER DRIVER KILLED IN CRASH ON I-81

A truck driver died Monday after losing control of the tractor-trailer he was driving.

State police said Thomas Joe Adams, 49, of Gainesville, Ga., was pronounced dead 75 minutes after the 4:30 a.m. single-vechicle wreck on Interstate 81 near Christiansburg.

Adams was driving north, one half mile past mile-marker 120 when his tractor-trailer ran off the right side of the road, police said. Adams apparently overcorrected and the rig came back onto the highway and overturned, hitting a guardrail several times.

Adams was taken to Montgomery Regional Hospital, where he died at 5:45 a.m.

Keywords:
FATALITY

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