ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, April 26, 1997 TAG: 9704280076
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: JON CAWLEY THE ROANOKE TIMES
A teen-ager ran off the highway and struck an embankment. He was then thrown from his vehicle.
An Alleghany County woman and man were killed a day apart in unrelated highway accidents late this week.
Reba Jenkins Redman, 91, of Covington died after she pulled out of a driveway on Virginia 159, just south of Virginia 717, about 1:15 p.m. Friday, into the path of a truck hauling wood, Virginia State Police Trooper A.W. Rhea said.
Gary W. Flack, 30, of Gap Mills, W.Va., was following another truck that had passed the driveway. The first truck's driver told police he was about to call back to Flack on the radio to warn him that Redman was inching out into the road when the accident occurred, Rhea said.
Redman's station wagon was struck in the left front fender and spun off Flack's truck, the trooper said. Redman was not wearing a seat belt, Rhea said. She was pronounced dead at 2:41 p.m. at Alleghany Regional Hospital.
Flack was not injured. He was not charged in relation to the accident but was cited for driving the truck without a commercial driver's license, Rhea said.
Also in the Alleghany Highlands, Daniel Glenn Brewster, 18, of Selma died Thursday night after a single-car accident on Interstate 64 near the 491/2 mile marker.
Brewster was traveling east about 7:10 p.m. at high speed when he ran off the right side of the road and hit an embankment. The car rolled several times, and Brewster was thrown free, State Trooper E.A. Fischer said.
He was pronounced dead at 8:22 p.m. at Stonewall Jackson Hospital in Lexington.
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