Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, June 21, 1990                   TAG: 9006210183
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: By NEAL THOMPSON NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: ELLISTON                                LENGTH: Medium

BICYCLIST STRUCK BY CAR IN ELLISTON

Police did not know the name of the boy Wednesday evening. He was taken to Roanoke Memorial Hospital, but a nursing supervisor said she could not release his name or his condition because the boy's parents had not been notified.

Evelyn Dooley, 76, of Route 1, Elliston, was driving the station wagon. She also was taken to Roanoke Memorial where she was listed in stable condition, the nursing supervisor said.

Dooley was driving west at about 5 p.m. on her way to her son's house in Glenvar to pick up tomato stakes, said Ted Garrett, her son.

Garrett, who was called to the scene, said his mother was able to crawl from the car and did not appear to be badly hurt.

Witnesses said Dooley swerved to try to avoid hitting the boy. He was on the left side of the road, but swerved into the middle where he was hit and thrown from his bike.

Hunley was not conscious and appeared to be seriously hurt, said William Stevens, who lives nearby and was one of the first at the scene.

State Police Trooper Ted Phipps said it appeared the boy may have been trying to cross the highway when Dooley came around a bend in the road and was unable to avoid him.

Dooley's car slammed into a telephone pole. The pole toppled and a transformer exploded when it hit the ground, starting a small grass fire in the median, said Stevens' wife, Bessie.