A Kanawha County man was killed yesterday when a car in which he was riding plunged over an embankment on Interstate 77 near Sissonville, state police said.
Robert G. Kinison, 40, of Big Coal Fork Drive on Campbells Creek, was dead on arrival at Charleston Memorial Hospital shortly after 6 p.m. of head and other injuries. The accident occurred at the Sissonville-Pocatalico exit of I-77.
He was a passenger in the vehicle driven by his nephew, Ronnie Lee Kinison, 21, also of Big Coal Fork Drive, who was listed in satisfactory condition today with undisclosed injuries at the hospital.
State police at the South Charleston detachment said the car apparently went out of control, plunged over an embankment and flipped end-over-end for 58 feet. The dead man was thrown about 100 feet from the vehicle.
Trooper D.R. Bush is investigating. Bill Patton and Dave Young of Beacon Ambulance Service transported the victims.
Kinison is survived by a son, Bobby of Cleveland, Ohio; daughter, Vickie of Cleveland, Ohio; parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Kinison of Coal Fork; brothers, George R., of Sissonville, Orville and Kenneth of Coal fork, Jerry Wayne of Columbus, Ohio; sisters, Mrs. Norma Lee Hill and Mrs. Janet Naylor, both of Columbus, Ohio.
The body is at Fidler and Frame Funeral Home, Belle.
--Charleston Daily Mail Sept 9, 1971 Thu
Robert G. Kinison, 40, of Big Coal Fork Drive on Campbells Creek, was dead on arrival at Charleston Memorial Hospital shortly after 6 p.m. of head and other injuries. The accident occurred at the Sissonville-Pocatalico exit of I-77.
He was a passenger in the vehicle driven by his nephew, Ronnie Lee Kinison, 21, also of Big Coal Fork Drive, who was listed in satisfactory condition today with undisclosed injuries at the hospital.
State police at the South Charleston detachment said the car apparently went out of control, plunged over an embankment and flipped end-over-end for 58 feet. The dead man was thrown about 100 feet from the vehicle.
Trooper D.R. Bush is investigating. Bill Patton and Dave Young of Beacon Ambulance Service transported the victims.
Kinison is survived by a son, Bobby of Cleveland, Ohio; daughter, Vickie of Cleveland, Ohio; parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Kinison of Coal Fork; brothers, George R., of Sissonville, Orville and Kenneth of Coal fork, Jerry Wayne of Columbus, Ohio; sisters, Mrs. Norma Lee Hill and Mrs. Janet Naylor, both of Columbus, Ohio.
The body is at Fidler and Frame Funeral Home, Belle.
--Charleston Daily Mail Sept 9, 1971 Thu
A Kanawha County man was killed yesterday when a car in which he was riding plunged over an embankment on Interstate 77 near Sissonville, state police said.
Robert G. Kinison, 40, of Big Coal Fork Drive on Campbells Creek, was dead on arrival at Charleston Memorial Hospital shortly after 6 p.m. of head and other injuries. The accident occurred at the Sissonville-Pocatalico exit of I-77.
He was a passenger in the vehicle driven by his nephew, Ronnie Lee Kinison, 21, also of Big Coal Fork Drive, who was listed in satisfactory condition today with undisclosed injuries at the hospital.
State police at the South Charleston detachment said the car apparently went out of control, plunged over an embankment and flipped end-over-end for 58 feet. The dead man was thrown about 100 feet from the vehicle.
Trooper D.R. Bush is investigating. Bill Patton and Dave Young of Beacon Ambulance Service transported the victims.
Kinison is survived by a son, Bobby of Cleveland, Ohio; daughter, Vickie of Cleveland, Ohio; parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Kinison of Coal Fork; brothers, George R., of Sissonville, Orville and Kenneth of Coal fork, Jerry Wayne of Columbus, Ohio; sisters, Mrs. Norma Lee Hill and Mrs. Janet Naylor, both of Columbus, Ohio.
The body is at Fidler and Frame Funeral Home, Belle.
--Charleston Daily Mail Sept 9, 1971 Thu
Robert G. Kinison, 40, of Big Coal Fork Drive on Campbells Creek, was dead on arrival at Charleston Memorial Hospital shortly after 6 p.m. of head and other injuries. The accident occurred at the Sissonville-Pocatalico exit of I-77.
He was a passenger in the vehicle driven by his nephew, Ronnie Lee Kinison, 21, also of Big Coal Fork Drive, who was listed in satisfactory condition today with undisclosed injuries at the hospital.
State police at the South Charleston detachment said the car apparently went out of control, plunged over an embankment and flipped end-over-end for 58 feet. The dead man was thrown about 100 feet from the vehicle.
Trooper D.R. Bush is investigating. Bill Patton and Dave Young of Beacon Ambulance Service transported the victims.
Kinison is survived by a son, Bobby of Cleveland, Ohio; daughter, Vickie of Cleveland, Ohio; parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Kinison of Coal Fork; brothers, George R., of Sissonville, Orville and Kenneth of Coal fork, Jerry Wayne of Columbus, Ohio; sisters, Mrs. Norma Lee Hill and Mrs. Janet Naylor, both of Columbus, Ohio.
The body is at Fidler and Frame Funeral Home, Belle.
--Charleston Daily Mail Sept 9, 1971 Thu
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