Title: Speed contributes to wreck
Dateline: Fort Ashby
Author: Not listed
Page: 12
Published: October 15, 1993
Publisher: Mineral Daily News Tribune (Keyser, WV)
Format: Newspaper (print)
Language: English
Holding Institution: West Virginia University Potomac State College
Library: Mary Shipper Library
Collection: Community History Archive
Digitization System: Advantage Archives
Accessed: January 29, 2026
Format: Digitized Newspaper Image
This article recounts a three-vehicle collision near Fort Ashby, which occurred while I was driving my mother’s van home from school with my sisters the day before. It notes that I was charged with failing to reduce speed to avoid a collision after traffic ahead slowed, documenting a minor traffic incident during my senior year that later appeared on the magistrate’s court docket.
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Speed contributes to wreck
FORT ASHBY — A three vehicle accident occurred Thursday on Route 28 near Fort Ashby at 3:19 p.m.
Lewis E. Moten III was charged with failure to reduce speed to avoid a collision when his vehicle failed to slow with traffic.
Moten, of Fort Ashby, was driving a 1986 Chevrolet Astro when he hit a 1986 Pontiac Grand Am driven by Michelle Guynn, of Keyser. Guynn’s vehicle then traveled into a 1984 Mercury Topaz driven by Christina Barton, of Ridgeley.
Bracketed words indicate best-guess transcriptions where the original newspaper text is partially illegible.
