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

DATE: SATURDAY, April 13, 1991                   TAG: 9104130495
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

POSTAL SERVICE TRUCK CRASHES; MAIL DELAYED

A wreck and fire involving a U.S. Postal Service truck outside Roanoke damaged and delayed mail destined for the Bristol Tennessee-Virginia post office.

The accident occurred about 2 a.m. Friday on Interstate 81.

William T. Evans Sr., acting Bristol postmaster, said the mail involved was returned to Roanoke. There, postal officials will inspect it and mark it delayed or damaged.

"It involved all classes of mail," Evans said Friday. "The inspector has to look at it. Right now, I can't tell you what was damaged. From what I understand, there was minimum fire damage and the rest water and smoke."

The mail was headed from processing points in Roanoke, Richmond and Washington for far Southwest Virginia and northeastern Tennessee.

Evans said the unidentified driver told him a small truck rear-ended the mail tractor-trailer. The small truck caught on fire, with the fire spreading to the mail truck.

by CNB