THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, January 23, 1995 TAG: 9501230082
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY STEVE STONE, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Short : 50 lines
For the relatives of two people killed late Saturday when the car they were in was rammed by a van being pursued by police, this was just the most recent incident in a year of misfortune.
As a result, seven children have been left without parents.
``This is a tragedy,'' said Mike Carey, a Virginia Beach police spokesman. ``The more I heard about the details, about the victims, the bigger the knot in my gut got.''
Police said that Terrie Guille Timms, 40, of the 1500 block of Southwick Road in Virginia Beach and William L. Rosbe, 50, of Richmond, died instantly in the crash.
Timms, whose husband died of cancer in December 1993, left three children, ages 6, 7 and 10, police said. She also had three stepchildren.
A graduate of the University of Virginia, Timms was the former owner and president of Guille Steel. At the time of his death, her husband, Andrew Jackson Timms, was a partner in the law firm of Hunton and Williams in Norfolk, one of Virginia's largest law firms with offices around the country and overseas.
Rosbe, also a partner at Hunton and Williams, and who had been driving the car, lost his wife last year when a small plane he was flying crashed near Roanoke. He had one daughter.
``It has totally devastated three families,'' said Larry Hill, Norfolk's police spokesman, noting that the man charged in connection with the wreck had two children of his own.
Arnold Oscar Peterson, 47, of the 2100 block of Beckman Cove in Virginia Beach, is charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter, drunken driving and numerous other charges stemming from the chase, which began in Virginia Beach and ended with the wreck in downtown Norfolk.
Rosbe's practice at Hunton & Williams focused on environmental law, hazardous waste regulations and the environmental aspects of business transactions.
A 1966 graduate of Yale University, he served in the Marine Corps and flew more than 200 missions as a pilot in Vietnam. MEMO: [For a related story, see page B1 for this date.]
KEYWORDS: ACCIDENT TRAFFIC FATALITIES DUI DRUNKEN DRIVING
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