DATE: Thursday, November 6, 1997            TAG: 9711060465

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B7   EDITION: FINAL 

TYPE: Briefs 

SOURCE: From staff reports 

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COURTS AND CRIME

Head-on collision

with truck kills

Elizabeth City man

An Elizabeth City man died early Wednesday when the Jeep he was driving crossed the center line on U.S. Route 17, struck a tractor-trailer head-on and overturned.

The truck driver was injured.

Glenn A. Bailey, 31, of the 1100 block of West Williams Circle in Elizabeth City, died of injuries, according to Dave Hughes, a spokesman for Chesapeake police.

The truck driver, Frankie L. McKinney, 58, from Vale, N.C., suffered minor injuries, Hughes said. McKinney was treated at Chesapeake General Hospital and released, according to a hospital spokeswoman.

The accident occurred at 1:25 a.m. Wednesday about one mile north of the North Carolina state line, Hughes said. The 1991 Jeep Renegade was southbound and apparently crossed the center line into the path of the northbound tractor-trailer.

Bailey was wearing a seatbelt, Hughes said.

SUFFOLK

Two Portsmouth suspects

accused of armed robbery

Two Portsmouth men have been charged in connection with an armed robbery at the Red Barn Food Store Oct. 16.

Each of the suspects, both of whom were in jail on other charges, was charged with robbery, two counts of using a firearm in the commission of a felony and two counts of abduction, Detective H.J. Wright said.

Detectives obtained warrants against Eugene D. McCoade, 20, of the 5100 block of Duncan St., and Ronald M. Davis, 18, of the 5800 block of Branch St.

McCoade is in Western Tidewater Regional Jail without bond, and Davis is in Norfolk City Jail without bond.

When Suffolk detectives were interviewing the suspects separately in another investigation, they confessed to the robbery of two clerks at the Red Barn, Wright said. KEYWORDS: ACCIDENT TRAFFIC NORTH CAROLINA ROBBERY

FATALITY

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