HEDGESVILLE, WV : Person killed in a traffic accident on Thursday, December, 7th 2017
Hedgesville, West Virginia
The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Department released the identity of the person killed in a traffic accident on Hedgesville Road Thursday afternoon.
Berkeley county resident Richard Lee Beaver, born July 1, 1939, died at the scene of the accident, according to Berkeley County Sheriff Curtis Keller.
At 3 p.m. Thursday, officers received a call of a reckless driver traveling on Route 9, according to Keller.
Keller said the caller advised dispatch a blue Kia Spectra near Severna Parkway, next to the Department of Motor Vehicles, pulled out almost striking several vehicles, and continued traveling westbound.
At 3:06 p.m. officers were dispatched to a vehicle accident. The Kia Spectra swerved into the eastbound lane striking a GMC Sierra pickup truck, Keller said.
Beaver was the driver of the Kia Spectra. The passengers in the pickup were transported with non-life threatening injuries to Berkeley Medical Center, Keller said. The road was closed at the intersection of Hedgesville Road and Ridge Road South, according to an alert from the Berkeley County Swift911 Emergency Notification System.
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Victim in fatal Hedgesville crash identified