| A Wayne County mother is blaming State Police for the death of her son, according to Eyewitness News.
Twenty-one-year-old Dwight Ferguson's body was found in a wrecked van 15 hours later in a junkyard, where the vehicle was towed from the crash scene in Wayne County.
Troopers were called to investigate a a single-vehicle wreck where Ferguson's best friend, 21-year-old Darrell Maynard, was ejected from the vehicle and later died at a Huntington hospital.
Ferguson's body was in the wrecked auto and was discovered Wednesday afternoon at a salvage yard by an employee who was replacing a tarp that had blown off the van.
State Police say Debra Vernick's son was already dead by the time the troopers arrived. Spokesman Jay Powers says a preliminary report from the medical examiner's office indicates that Ferguson suffered a head injury and died a few minutes later.
Vernick believes her son may have been alive after the crash and could have been saved if the troopers had done a thorough search of the van and found him.
Officers did return to the wreck scene for a search after Ferguson's family reported him missing.
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