State police are ready to file charges in the death of a Virginia
Department of Environmental Quality employee who was crushed when a trash
truck fell
onto his car as he was on his way to work Dec. 3.
Virginia State Police Sgt. Gary Settle says the police and Page County
Commonwealth's Attorney John Hennessy met with relatives of crash victim
Dwight Sours before making the final decision to proceed with the case.
Sours, 56, was a resident of Stanley.
According to Settle, state police plan to charge both the truck's driver,
Clayton Sharpe, 40, of Baltimore, Md., and the owner of the
tractor-trailer he was driving, East Coast Resources LLC. Police are holding
off on
identifying the specific charges until a magistrate signs off on the
paperwork. It likely would have happened sooner, but bad weather and icy
roads have kept state troopers otherwise occupied this week, Settle
explained.
A police inspection of the crashed truck conducted last month showed the
tractor-trailer had faulty brakes.