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Crash claims Wapak native |
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Thursday, 09 July 2009 |
By KAREN CAMPBELL
Assistant Managing Editor
A former Wapakoneta resident was killed along with the driver of the motorcycle she was riding on in a crash Sunday afternoon in West Virginia.
Barbara A. Elliston, 48, of Anna, was riding on a 2007 Harley Davidson motorcycle driven by Bruce Bossen, 49, of Sidney, near Morgantown, W.V., when they crashed into an SUV driven by a Weston, W.V., man.
Trooper J.M. Clausell of the West Virginia State Police’s Morgantown Attachment said Samuel Flowers, who was driving a GMC Jimmy caused the crash by making an illegal U-turn on Interstate 68, where Bossen and Elliston were headed west near mile marker seven.
“The motorcycle drove into the SUV broadside when it made the turn,” Clausell told the Wapakoneta Daily News.
Elliston and Bossen, both of whom were wearing helmets, sustained fatal injuries from the crash.
A Botkins man driving with them on a Honda motorcycle crashed due to debris on the road caused by the crash and was transported by a rescue squad to an area hospital to be treated for injuries.
An update on Peter V. Vaubel’s condition was not available.
Information also was not available on whether Flowers was injured in the collision.
An investigation of the collision is pending, and Clausell said they are still working to determine if alcohol played a factor in the crash. Speed does not appear to have been involved.
No citations have been issued at this time.
“It was a straight part of the road,” Clausell said. “Conditions were clear.”
Elliston is survived by a teenage daughter, Emily, of the home, and her parents, Mary Dee and Donald Malueg, of Wapakoneta.
She was a 1978 graduate of Wapakoneta High School and worked for the state of Ohio as a public information specialist at District 7 of the Department of Transportation for 25 years.
Funeral services are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Wapakoneta.
The family plans to receive friends from 2 to 8 p.m. today at Bayliff and Eley Funeral Home in Wapakoneta.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 10 July 2009 )
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