ELDERLY MAN INJURED WHEN CAR PLUNGED OVER STEEP EMBANKMENT ON BARNES RUN

(05/10/2017)

5-26-2017 - A driver lost control of his vehicle about 2:20 p.m. Friday on Barnes Run Road in a sharp turn and plunged straight down a 50-foot steep embankment, coming to rest in Barnes Run.

At least one of the occupants, an elderly man from Hur, was life-flighted to a Charleston medical center from Calhoun Middle-High School, suffering from multiple trauma.

The Grantsville VFD and the Calhoun Sheriffs Department responded to the incident, about one mile off Altizer Road.