ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Thursday, March 7, 1996                TAG: 9603070041
SECTION: VIRGINIA                 PAGE: C-1  EDITION: METRO 

WRECK HALTS TRAFFIC FOR 4 HOURS

LENGTH: Short :   21 lines
ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:  ERIC BRADY/Staff. A four-vehicle chain reaction wreck 
          closed southbound Interstate 81 for four hours Wednesday afternoon 
          as crews cleaned up a small spill of an unknown chemical substance. 
          Two tractor-trailers and a rental truck had slowed for traffic near 
          the Hanging Rock exit when another tractor-trailer struck the third 
          vehicle, pushing it into the other two. About five to 10 gallons of 
          an unidentified chemical spilled from the third vehicle. The driver 
          of the fourth truck, Freedy Word, 56, of Rockbridge Baths was 
          charged with following too closely. No one was hurt. color.