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

DATE: TUESDAY, February 14, 1995                   TAG: 9502140101
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER
DATELINE: RURAL RETREAT                                LENGTH: Short

MAN DIES AS TRAIN HITS HIS TRUCK

A 48-year-old Wythe County man was killed Sunday when his pickup truck crossed the path of an oncoming Norfolk Southern train.

Steven Kelly Cline was attempting to turn onto Virginia 674 from Virginia 675, which runs parallel to the railroad tracks in Rural Retreat, when the collision occurred.

Trooper F.R. Ferrell said the rear part of the truck's bed was hit, knocking it into a flashing signal light and then into a culvert. Cline, who was not wearing a seat belt, was thrown into the passenger-side windshield and killed.

The train was traveling at 43 mph, Ferrell said.

Keywords:
FATALITY

by CNB