Thursday, September 27, 2012

Killed Pedestrian Identified

{Charleston, West Virginia}...A pedestrian struck and killed by a vehicle near the Edens Fork exit of Interstate 77 just before 8:30 A.M. Wednesday has been identified as 54 year old Stephen M. Staudt Sr. Capt. Bryan Robbins of the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department says Staudt's identification card listed an address in Ohio, but his relatives were tracked down in Pennsylvania. The vehicle was driven by 46 year old Winnifer G. Jones of Huntington. Jones says she saw the pedestrian near the travel lane and attempted to brake when the vehicle went out of control and struck the man. Results of an investigation of the accident will be turned over to the Kanawha County Prosecutor's Office.