CRESTON MAN INDICTED OVER CRASH - Vandale Facing Multiple Charges

(05/18/2019)
A Creston, Wirt County man is facing multiple charges related to a two-vehicle crash on Route 14 south of Williamstown in September 2018.

A Wood County grand jury indicted Michael Dotson, 31, on Wednesday.

He faces charges of child neglect resulting in serious bodily injury, child neglect creating the risk of serious bodily injury or death, driving while in an impaired state causing serious bodily injury and driving while in an impaired state causing bodily injury.

Authorities said Dotson was driving a pickup truck that went left of center and collided with a flatbed delivery truck near Henderson Wilds.

Both drivers and two passengers in Dotson's truck, including a juvenile, were treated at WVU Medicine Camden Clark after the crash.

A Wood County grand jury has indicted Jimmy Jack Vandale of Calhoun.

He is charged with fleeing from an officer with reckless indifference, fleeing on foot from an officer, obstructing an officer, and bringing a stolen vehicle into state.