Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, April 16, 1990 TAG: 9004160075
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: A-4 EDITION: STATE
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The driver, Rex Allen Neugent, 21, an assembly line worker from Elk Creek, also has been charged with reckless driving and failure to wear a seat belt, Trooper G.J. McKenzie said Sunday.
It was incorrectly reported in Sunday's Roanoke Times & World-News that the victim, Sandra Kay Anderson, had been the driver of the small pickup truck.
Anderson, 18, of Independence, had been sitting next to the passenger window of the truck, McKenzie said. The crash happened about 2 a.m. on U.S. 58 about 3 1/2 miles west of Independence.
The trooper gave this description of the crash:
Neugent lost control of the truck, and it went off the road, traveling 380 feet along the right shoulder. It was airborne part of the time.
The truck careened across the highway and struck an embankment, then spun around and came to a stop back on the right side of the road.
Anderson died at the scene.
Neugent and another passenger, Bennie Osborne, 22, of Independence, were treated and released at Twin County Community Hospital.
McKenzie said the survivors told him that they had been at a bar earlier that night, but that they had been riding around for about an hour before the wreck.
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