THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, November 28, 1995 TAG: 9511280296
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B1 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: BY ANNE SAITA, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: KNOTTS ISLAND LENGTH: Short : 40 lines
Funeral services will be held Wednesday for a Barco teenager who was fatally injured in Knotts Island when she was struck by a car.
The victim was 14-year-old Hollie Nicole McCoy, an eighth-grader at J.P. Knapp Junior High School. The services are scheduled for 1 p.m. at Twiford Colonial Chapel in Chesapeake. Burial will be at Moyock Memorial Cemetery in Moyock.
McCoy was walking with two friends along N.C. Route 615 on Knotts Island when a car driven by Melissa Sue Wade, 20, of Knotts Island, struck the teenager about 5:45 Friday.
Wade was traveling north on the island's main road about 45 mph when she momentarily was blinded by the headlights of an oncoming vehicle, a State Highway Patrol spokesperson said Monday.
The victim and her friends, headed to a nearby store to make a telephone call, were northbound three abreast along the shoulder of a dark stretch of highway, said Trooper M.B. Miller.
Wade swerved her 1988 Honda Accord sedan to avoid hitting the pedestrians when they became visible, but her car clipped McCoy, Miller said.
McCoy died of head injuries the following day at Norfolk Sentara General Hospital, police said.
McCoy was the second person to be killed this year on a Currituck County highway. In May, Samuel Esleeck II, 23, of Virginia Beach, died after he fell asleep at the wheel and his car crashed on U.S. 158 in Coinjock.
Survivors include her mother, Patsy Phelps Rohloff, and her stepfather, Terry L. Rohloff, both of Barco, and her father, David S. McCoy III of Virginia Beach.
KEYWORDS: ACCIDENT TRAFFIC FATALITY by CNB