Two southern West
Virginia residents died Saturday night in a vehicle crash on
Interstate 81 in Bristol , Tennessee .
The Tennessee Highway Patrol said
Carl Osburn, 54, of Princeton, drove his tractor-trailer into the rear of a
passenger car being driven by Dennis Dawson, 81, of Beckley .
Police say the collision sent both
vehicles across two lanes of traffic and into a concrete median. Both drivers
died within a few hours after the crash.
Dennis Dawson’s wife, Connie, 75,
of Beckley , is in critical condition at a Bristol hospital.