Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, June 21, 1990                   TAG: 9006210472
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B6   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: NEAL THOMPSON NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: ELLISTON                                 LENGTH: Short

ACCIDENT INJURES TEEN CYCLIST, DRIVER

James "Pete" Hunley, 13, was listed in satisfactory condition with head and facial injuries this morning at Roanoke Memorial Hospital.

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 this morning.

Dooley was driving east 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 Hunley. 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 Trooper Ted Phipps said it appeared Hunley 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.

Appalachian Power Co. repaired power lines and returned electricity to a few homes in the area that had lost power.