| UPDATE - Bob Henry Baber, the Mountain Party's candidate for governor, is saying he and his two adult children are bruised, but lucky to be alive, after a collision with a truck on Interstate 79.
Baber and his kids, Jackie, 21, and Cody, 19, checked themselves out of Ruby Memorial Hospital on Thursday in hopes of catching an early Friday flight to Utah to attend the marriage of his oldest daughter.
Baber said he is wearing a neck brace.
"I'm a little banged up, a little bruised and my car has seen its better days," he said.
"Anytime you tango with a semi truck and it cuts you off and slaps you around by the tail end, and you walk way from that, you've got to thank God."
Baber was en route to Pittsburgh International Airport when a Peterbilt tractor-trailer moved into his lane and collided with his Jeep.
The driver said he was unaware of the collision when he was later stopped by police.
ORIGINAL STORY - Mountain Party candidate for governor, Bob Henry Baber and his two youngest children have been injured in a crash on Interstate 79.
Baber was driving to Pittsburgh to catch a flight Thursday when the rear end of a tractor-trailer attempting to pass struck the vehicle and pushed it into the guardrail.
The extent of injuries to Baber and his children are not immediately known.
State Police Trooper First Class J.G. Baker says Baber reported the hit-and-run and the truck's license plate by cell phone, then followed the driver while police issued an alert.
A trooper then stopped the trucker on Interstate 68.
44-year-old Scott Lunsford of Clarksville, Ga. was charged with failure to maintain control.
Baber, who serves as grant-writer and developer at Glenville State College, is a writer, politician, and environmentalist.
| 
