ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Monday, September 23, 1996             TAG: 9609230093
SECTION: VIRGINIA                 PAGE: A1   EDITION: METRO 
DATELINE: ERIC BRADY STAFF 

CRASH BACKS UP TRAFFIC ON INTERSTATE 81 FOR MORE THAN THREE HOURS

LENGTH: Short :   24 lines
ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:   1. & 2. A tractor-trailer accident slowed northbound 
          traffic on Interstate 81  for more than three hours Sunday afternoon
          (right). At 2:45 p.m., James Moody of Dillsburg, Pa., fell asleep at
          the wheel and his truck ran off the left side of the interstate, 
          according to police. The truck, a double tractor-trailer,struck an 
          embankment and overturned. Moody was taken to Carilion Roanoke 
          Memorial  Hospital, where he was treated for minor injuries and 
          released. Traffic was  backed up for miles from the Troutville exit,
          where the accident occurred, to  the Interstate-581 interchange 
          while rescue workers prepared for a wrecker  service to clear the 
          road for travel (above).