BY CLAIRE GALOFARO
BRISTOL HERALD COURIER
BRISTOL, Va. – A Glade Spring man died Thursday on his way to Wise Recycling with two big bags of aluminum cans in the backseat.
Adam Troy Brown, 49, ran the stop sign where Fairfield Street meets Coronet Drive just before 3 p.m. A big rig on Coronet, which does not have a stop sign, slammed on its brakes and swerved to the left, but still plowed into the driver’s side of Brown’s Buick Century in the middle of the intersection, just in front of the entrance to the recycling center. The truck pushed the Buick 30 feet down the road and into an oncoming van.
Brown died on scene. His passenger, Diana Reynolds, 51, was taken to Bristol Regional Medical Center in serious condition. Late Thursday, the hospital listed her as stable. No one else was injured.
The driver’s side of the Buick crumbled 4 feet inward at impact. Two hours after the crash, orange spray paint marked the pavement where the Everhart Transportation truck, out of Greeneville, Tenn., began braking, collided with the Buick, then finally came to a rest some 50 feet down the road. The Buick’s tires blew as the truck pushed it sideways, leaving deep gauges in the street littered with shards of broken glass and a few stray aluminum cans.
The Bristol Virginia Fire Department used the Jaws of Life to extract the passenger seat, cut up the carpet and remove the Buick’s black box. The Bristol Virginia Police Department, with the help of the Virginia State Police, is continuing to reconstruct and investigate the crash.
cgalofaro@bristolnews.com | (276) 645-2531
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