Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, February 18, 1991 TAG: 9102180157
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: A5 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Three people were trapped after a car crossed the center line of rain-slicked U.S. 221 on Bent Mountain and hit an oncoming pickup truck shortly after 4 p.m.
Trooper C.D. Jessee said all three had to be cut out of their vehicles by rescue workers using the Jaws of Life. They were taken to Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
The driver of the car, William R. Dooley Jr., 37, of Route 1, Copper Hill, was in surgery and listed in critical condition. The driver of the truck, Malcolm Black, 70, and his wife, Jimmie, 69, of Bent Mountain, were in serious condition. Jessee said charges were pending.
About three hours later, a truck driven by Ronald Dean Doughty, 30, of Eagle Rock skidded on ice on Catawba Mountain and rammed into car driven by James William Gillespie, 26, of Roanoke.
Trooper V.L. Childress said the Doughty vehicle bumped a guardrail before veering across the highway into the path of the Gillespie car. Both men were treated and released at local hospitals.
by CNB