Motorcycle deaths net 20 years - Chatham Star Tribune

Not a dry eye was in the Pittsylvania County courtroom Friday morning during the over three hour long sentencing of a 30-year-old Danville woman on two counts of involuntary manslaughter while driving under the influence and driving on a... Scruton was driving a 2004 Ford Taurus southbound when she crossed the center line and struck two Harley-Davidson motorcycles in the northbound lane. Michael Wayne Fuqua told the court Friday that he had stopped to check his mirrors when they turned off of U. S. Highway 58 onto Stony Mill Road, so he was “way back in the pack. Fuqua said the event affected him “tremendously”. “It bothered me so bad at first that I lost my job, because I couldn’t get up and go to work,” he said. He said Hamlett and Williams were like older brothers to him, teaching him and looking out for him. It played with my head,” he said. Shirley Williams said David, her third child of four, “always stayed close to me. ”. The 80-year-old said following the wreck she was told her son was in a body bag and that she couldn’t see him. Williams’ daughter, Sheena Shelton, said she not only lost her father, but also her children’s grandfather. Source: www.chathamstartribune.com