Some details of the deaths:
KENTUCKY
— A man died in southeastern Kentucky when his car collided with a salt
truck Thursday, state police said. Billy R. Stevens, 59, of Williamsburg
was pronounced dead at the scene on state Route 92 in Whitley County.
Two passengers were being treated at a hospital.
— A Kentucky transportation worker died Saturday while plowing
snow-covered highways, officials said. The Kentucky Transportation
Cabinet identified him in a statement as Christopher Adams. The
statement says Adams called a supervisor about 5:50 a.m., saying his
plow slid into a ditch. When the supervisor arrived, Adams was slumped
over, unresponsive in his seat. A cause of death has not been released.
MARYLAND
— A 60-year-old man died shoveling snow after an apparent heart attack
in the Fort Washington area, authorities said. Medics were called but
couldn't revive him, Prince George's County Fire/EMS Department
spokesman Mark Brady said.
NEW YORK
— Three people died while shoveling snow in New York City, police said.
The New York Police Department's Chief of Department Jim O'Neill told
reporters Saturday one person on Staten Island and two people in Queens
died. He released no further details on the deaths. A police spokesman
said the medical examiner's office will determine exactly how they died.
NORTH CAROLINA
— Gov. Pat McCrory said one person injured in an accident in Wilkes
County on Wednesday evening has died, and another motorist was killed
Friday in a crash on Interstate 95 in Johnston County.
— A 60-year-old woman driving her car in Stokes County near her home
about 5:45 p.m. Wednesday hit an "extremely icy" patch, went down an
embankment and turned over in a creek, the state Highway Patrol said.
Mary Williams was killed in the accident.
— In neighboring Forsyth County, 55-year-old Rosa McCollough-Leake was
killed when she slid on an icy roadway, crossed into oncoming traffic
and hit a pickup truck head-on. Three people had minor injuries.
— A 4-year-old boy died Friday afternoon after the pickup truck carrying
his family on Interstate 77 near Troutman spun out of control and
crashed, said State Highway Patrol Sgt. Michael Baker. The Ford pickup
carrying two adults and their three children all under 8 years old
slammed into a tow truck working to haul out a vehicle that had run off
the highway earlier, Baker said. Troopers say the boy was restrained in a
child seat and died as a result of the impact.
— A motorist died Friday morning after losing control of her car and
hitting a tree in Hickory. Troopers identified her as 19-year-old
Madeline Paige Scalf of High Point.
OHIO
— A teenager sledding behind an all-terrain vehicle was hit by a truck
and killed Friday, the State Highway Patrol said. The truck failed to
yield at a traffic light and hit the sled, which the ATV was pulling in
Wheelersburg, the highway patrol said.
TENNESSEE
— A car slid off the roadway due to speed and slick conditions, killing
the driver and injuring a passenger, the Knox County sheriff's
department said.
— A couple in a vehicle slid off an icy road and plummeted down a
300-foot embankment Wednesday night, killing the woman who was driving,
said Carter County Sheriff Dexter Lunceford. Stacy Sherrill's husband, a
passenger in the car, survived the crash. It took him several hours to
climb the embankment and report the accident.
VIRGINIA
— Two people died from hypothermia, said Corinne Geller, spokeswoman for
the Office of the Virginia Chief Medical Examiner. Those deaths
occurred in Hampton and Wise County, in southwest Virginia. State police
did not release the names of the hypothermia victims or the time or
circumstances of their deaths.
— A man was killed in the City of Chesapeake, Virginia, on Friday after
his car went off the snowy George Washington highway and hit a tree,
said Officer Leo Kosinski. Virginia State Police say the number of
storm-related deaths in the state has risen to three.
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