Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, June 1, 1995 TAG: 9506010067
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: KATHY LOAN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: DUBLIN LENGTH: Short
Tuesday evening, the calls for help that went out over police and rescue radio frequencies were for her.
Saunders, 36, of Dublin, died Tuesday after a 7:30 p.m. two-car collision on U.S. 11 near the Dublin Animal Hospital.
State police said the accident happened when Saunders pulled from Virginia 633 onto U.S. 11 and into the path of an oncoming car.
No information about the other driver was available.
Saunders was taken to Pulaski Community Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 9:03 p.m.
Saunders was married to Jeff Saunders, a field sergeant at the Sheriff's Office, and was a mother of two.
Sheriff Ralph Dobbins said his department "thought the world of her" and is grief-stricken.
"She's been a part of this family for a long, long time," Dobbins said.
"We thought whatever happened, Jeff was the one with the dangerous job," the sheriff said. "It's why, I guess, they call them accidents."
Visitation is today at Seaver-Sanders & Mullins Funeral Home in Radford, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Funeral services are Friday at 11 a.m. at the Church of God on Bob White Boulevard, Pulaski.
Keywords:
FATALITY
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