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Summers County man dies after striking telephone pole with car

By Julia White,

2024-08-20

HINTON, WV (WVNS)– A man was killed after his truck crashed into a telephone pole in Summers County at around 8:30 a.m. on Monday, August 19, 2024.

According to a press release from Capt. R. A. Maddy with the West Virginia State Police, the motor vehicle crash happened on Beech Run Road.

Upon arrival, Corporal N.C. Boothe saw that the man’s 2020 GMC Sienna pickup truck, operated by 65-year-old Billy Joe Willy Jr., had driven off the roadway and struck a telephone pole. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Willey Jr. was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Charleston, West Virginia for an autopsy.

This motor vehicle crash investigation remains active and ongoing.

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