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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 12, 1995                   TAG: 9507120043
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: RINER                                LENGTH: Short

2 FLOYD WOMEN INJURED IN CRASH WITH TRACTOR-TRAILER

Two Floyd women were injured Tuesday morning when their car was broadsided by a tractor-trailer traveling north on Virginia 8.

Brenda Cook, a passenger in a car driven by Becky Moran, was airlifted to Roanoke Memorial Hospital after rescuers had to cut her out of the car following the 9:45 a.m. accident. Moran had been driving south on the road, and crossed into the path of the tractor-trailer while turning into a parking lot, State Police Trooper D.I. Compton said. Neither woman was wearing a seat belt.

Cook, recovering from gall bladder surgery performed last week, was in stable condition Tuesday afternoon, a nursing supervisor said. Moran was treated and released from Radford Community Hospital, Compton said. The truck driver, Stephen Glasich, was not injured.

Moran was charged with failure to yield the right-of-way, Compton said.

Bobby Clark said he has seen at least three accidents in the same spot since he and his wife opened the Electric Sun tanning salon in March.

"This is just a bad spot," Clark said. "I don't want to see somebody get hurt again right in front of our business. Something needs to be done."

by CNB