A fiery crash killed one truck driver, injured another and caused a potential environmental problem at the Jane Lew exit on I-79 yesterday afternoon.
A diesel spill briefly endangered a town's water supply.
The Department of Environmental Protection sent an emergency response unit to the scene.
Authorities said the accident occurred when a tractor-trailer driver blacked out as he was passing another northbound tractor-trailer.
His truck side-swiped the truck he was passing. Both trucks went over an embankment and then caught fire.
Sixty-one-year-old Gerald Lowery of Cedar Lake, Indiana, regained consciousness after the impact and was able to escape the fire.
The driver of the other truck was killed, 57-year-old Robert McCallin of Berkeley Springs.
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