Barlow Drive MVA leaves 1 Dead
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| A female was
killed early today in a car accident on Barlow |
| Drive and two
males apparently injured in the wreck were |
| seen leaving
the scene, police said. |
| The wreck
occurred when the older model car all three were |
| riding in
flipped over on Barlow between Twilight Drive and |
| Keystone
Drive, police said. Police believe the crash |
| happened about
6:30 a.m. They had not identified any of |
| those
involved. Cpl. Shawn Williams of the |
| Charleston
Police Department said a witness who first came
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| upon the scene
reported seeing two white males who appeared |
| to be injured
walking toward Keystone Drive |
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away from the vehicle, which was
upside down with its top crumpled in the roadway. The witness told
police the males returned to the scene and then left again. City
police and fire personnel were still working to extract the body from
the wreckage at 8 a.m. Williams said they could not yet determine how
old the victim was. "Basically, we think she was a passenger, but
we're not for certain," he said. Williams said it appeared the driver
was speeding along the desolate stretch of Barlow skirting the Elk
River. It appeared as if the vehicle entered a ditch and flipped on
its top as it traveled north.
Debris lay scattered around the
wreckage: a white portable television, window fan, various items of
clothing including shoes, food, leaves, dirt and car parts.
Officers with the traffic division
blocked the stretch of Barlow between Twilight and Keystone while
emergency workers and investigators worked on the scene.
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