Black ice caused Worthington accident

Thanks to Jay Holman, Class of 1941, who lives in Carolina and is active with his class's reunions, we know the names of the Worthington wreck victims: Devin Harvey, 26, and Drake Butler, 19, from the Farmington-Mannington area.

Devin Scott Harvey's obituary appears in the Fairmont Times.

Lions stick together to keep us informed, huh? Even if the Fairmont Times put up barriers to it to try to wring a few money pennies out of people who don't even live in the Times' delivery area.

My thanks to Terri Orsini Saye, Class of 1972, who lives in Durham, North Carolina, and June Paxton Rogers, Class of 1948, for providing me a copy of the story in the Fairmont Times, which blocks non-paying customers, even those NOT in its delivery area, from reading the online material without paying for it. This even applies to obituaries, which are NOT the intellectual property of the Times (but of the families who provide the information to the funeral home, forcing me to check out a dozen funeral home web sites daily because the Times blocks free access to the obituaries).

Terri’s parents are Mary Louise Baker Orsini, who started at MHS with the Class of 1948, and Tony Orsini, Class of 1946, who live on Swisher Hill.

The finally revealed Times article on the horrific accident:

FAIRMONT — Two people were taken by helicopter following an early-morning

vehicle accident in Worthington Monday.

Worthington Fire Chief Chris McIntire said black ice may have caused a jeep to

slide across the center line of Helens Run Road.

McIntire said the jeep was then hit on the passenger’s side door by an oncoming

pickup truck.

“The jeep was t-boned,” he said.

Following the accident, McIntire said the driver and passenger of the jeep were

flown to Ruby Memorial Hospital by HealthNet. Crews had to use an extraction

tool known as the “jaws of life” to free the entrapped passenger of the jeep.

McIntire said the driver of the truck refused to be transported to the hospital

but had non-lifethreatening injuries.

The names of those involved have not been released and the conditions of the two

individuals transported to the hospital has also not been released.

The Marion County Sheriff’s Department, Worthington and Farmington Volunteer

fire departments and the Marion County Rescue Squad responded to the accident

Monday.

The Marion County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the accident.