DEATH ACCIDENTIAL
A Summers County child was killed Monday evening in a freak auto accident on State Secondary 11. Steven Glenn Adkins was killed when he fell from a car driven by his father, Glenn Harold Adkins of Route 1, Hinton. The parents had already begun planning for child's second birthday on June 24.
Trooper A.W. Maddy of the Hinton Detachment investigated the accident and said the family had parked their car along the Taylor's Ridge Road for a few minutes to visit a friend, Gerald Adkins. The boys father thought the rear doors of the car were locked and as he pulled onto the road, he heard a noise and heard the child scream. Maddy said Adkins hit the brakes and the child flipped under the left rear wheel.
The father rushed the child to the Summers County Hospital where the boy was pronounced dead on arrival. Both parents had to be sedated by the attending physician.
Maddy said his investigation showed absolutely no indication of any wrong-doing or negligence and no charges would be filed.
He was born June 24, 1977, in Ronceverte.
Other survivors include one brother, Robert Shane Adkins, at home; partneral grandmother, Mrs. Myrtle Adkins, and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Cox of Hinton.
Services for the Adkins infant were held at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlors in Hinton with the Rev. D.D. Elwell officiating. Burial followed in the Upland Cemetery.
Source: The Hinton News June 14, 1979 Page 13
A Summers County child was killed Monday evening in a freak auto accident on State Secondary 11. Steven Glenn Adkins was killed when he fell from a car driven by his father, Glenn Harold Adkins of Route 1, Hinton. The parents had already begun planning for child's second birthday on June 24.
Trooper A.W. Maddy of the Hinton Detachment investigated the accident and said the family had parked their car along the Taylor's Ridge Road for a few minutes to visit a friend, Gerald Adkins. The boys father thought the rear doors of the car were locked and as he pulled onto the road, he heard a noise and heard the child scream. Maddy said Adkins hit the brakes and the child flipped under the left rear wheel.
The father rushed the child to the Summers County Hospital where the boy was pronounced dead on arrival. Both parents had to be sedated by the attending physician.
Maddy said his investigation showed absolutely no indication of any wrong-doing or negligence and no charges would be filed.
He was born June 24, 1977, in Ronceverte.
Other survivors include one brother, Robert Shane Adkins, at home; partneral grandmother, Mrs. Myrtle Adkins, and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Cox of Hinton.
Services for the Adkins infant were held at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlors in Hinton with the Rev. D.D. Elwell officiating. Burial followed in the Upland Cemetery.
Source: The Hinton News June 14, 1979 Page 13
DEATH ACCIDENTIAL
A Summers County child was killed Monday evening in a freak auto accident on State Secondary 11. Steven Glenn Adkins was killed when he fell from a car driven by his father, Glenn Harold Adkins of Route 1, Hinton. The parents had already begun planning for child's second birthday on June 24.
Trooper A.W. Maddy of the Hinton Detachment investigated the accident and said the family had parked their car along the Taylor's Ridge Road for a few minutes to visit a friend, Gerald Adkins. The boys father thought the rear doors of the car were locked and as he pulled onto the road, he heard a noise and heard the child scream. Maddy said Adkins hit the brakes and the child flipped under the left rear wheel.
The father rushed the child to the Summers County Hospital where the boy was pronounced dead on arrival. Both parents had to be sedated by the attending physician.
Maddy said his investigation showed absolutely no indication of any wrong-doing or negligence and no charges would be filed.
He was born June 24, 1977, in Ronceverte.
Other survivors include one brother, Robert Shane Adkins, at home; partneral grandmother, Mrs. Myrtle Adkins, and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Cox of Hinton.
Services for the Adkins infant were held at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlors in Hinton with the Rev. D.D. Elwell officiating. Burial followed in the Upland Cemetery.
Source: The Hinton News June 14, 1979 Page 13
A Summers County child was killed Monday evening in a freak auto accident on State Secondary 11. Steven Glenn Adkins was killed when he fell from a car driven by his father, Glenn Harold Adkins of Route 1, Hinton. The parents had already begun planning for child's second birthday on June 24.
Trooper A.W. Maddy of the Hinton Detachment investigated the accident and said the family had parked their car along the Taylor's Ridge Road for a few minutes to visit a friend, Gerald Adkins. The boys father thought the rear doors of the car were locked and as he pulled onto the road, he heard a noise and heard the child scream. Maddy said Adkins hit the brakes and the child flipped under the left rear wheel.
The father rushed the child to the Summers County Hospital where the boy was pronounced dead on arrival. Both parents had to be sedated by the attending physician.
Maddy said his investigation showed absolutely no indication of any wrong-doing or negligence and no charges would be filed.
He was born June 24, 1977, in Ronceverte.
Other survivors include one brother, Robert Shane Adkins, at home; partneral grandmother, Mrs. Myrtle Adkins, and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Cox of Hinton.
Services for the Adkins infant were held at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlors in Hinton with the Rev. D.D. Elwell officiating. Burial followed in the Upland Cemetery.
Source: The Hinton News June 14, 1979 Page 13
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