According to police in Kanawha County, a trucker was under the influence when his coal truck struck another coal truck on Thursday afternoon.

Troopers with the West Virginia State Police report that Raleigh County resident Joseph Webb was operating a coal truck along Cabin Creek Road, just off Interstate 64 (Interstate 77) in the Dry Branch area. Around 3:25 p.m., Mr. Webb drifted into the other lane and struck a second coal truck.

Paramedics transported both truckers to a nearby hospital for treatment. Mr. Webb later admitted to investigators that he was stoned on drugs at the time of the crash.

He is under suspicion of driving under the influence causing injury, driving under the influence of a controlled substance, driving left of center and reckless driving.

The National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Study conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that driver error was the primary cause in 90 percent of major traffic crashes.

Police in Newport News responded Friday morning to an injury accident with entrapment.

According to the Newport News Police Department, the unidentified driver of a white pickup truck was traveling along U.S. Route 60 (Warwick Boulevard) around 7:10 a.m. As the pickup approached Copeland Drive, near Mariners Museum Park, a red Volkswagen attempted to make a left-hand turn from Copeland Drive to Warwick Bouelvard and crossed into the path of the pickup.

The pickup’s driver was unable to avoid a collision, and struck the Volkswagen on the driver’s side in T-bone fashion. Firefighters used hydraulic extrication tools to free the Volkswagen’s driver.

Paramedics transported the driver of the Volkswagen to a nearby hospital for treatment.

Investigators indicated that the pickup had the right of way. The National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Study conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that driver error was the primary cause in 90 percent of major traffic crashes.

Officials say one person was hurt and two others hospitalized on Saturday evening in an amusement-park accident in Huntington.

According to firefighters with the Ceredo Volunteer Fire Department, a ride called “The Spider”  at Camden Park experienced mechanical failure around 9:25 p.m. For unknown reasons, an arm of the rotating ride touched the ground, bringing the mechanism to a forced stopped.

Paramedics transported one person to a nearby hospital for treatment. Two others were also hospitalized for evaluation.

Camden Park is located along U.S. Route 60 near Waverly Road.

At least one man has been confirmed dead in a rafting accident on the New River near Beckley on Sunday.

The National Park Service reports that five rafters were on board a jon boat, 14 feet in length, around 5 p.m. on Sunday when the craft overturned. Two of the men, Lester resident Daniel Malone and Sandstone resident Jeff Acord successfully swam to shore.

The current carried away three others in the boat, however. Shortly before noon on Monday, April 4, the body of Lester resident Paul Malone, 23, was recovered, roughly 1,000 feet downriver from the accident. The whereabouts and condition of Lester resident Dean Halsey and Richmond, Virginia resident Sam Acord remain unknown.

Officials say none of the men on board was wearing a life preserver at the time of the accident.

A Supreme Court Justice was cited for his role in a crash in across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.

The United States Park Police report that Justice Antonin Scalia, 75, was traveling south along George Washington Memorial Parkway around 8:55 a.m. when he struck another vehicle from behind. Traffic had stopped suddenly and the impact affected two other vehicles traveling nearby.

All travelers reportedly escaped without injury. Mr. Scalia was cited for following too closely and police wrote him a citation for $70.

Mr. Scalia has served the court for 25 years. He was on his way to the bench in Washington, D.C. at the time of the crash.

Born in Trenton, New Jersey, Mr. Scalia was appointed by President Ronald Reagan and is the longest-serving justice on the court. A noted conservative, he has adhered to the constitutional doctrine of originalism and has been a textualist in matters of statutory interpretation.

Officials say four employees of a Weirton tin mill were injured in a steam accident on Friday.

ArcelorMittal reports that the failure of a steam valve triggered the accident, which seriously injured one worker, who was subsequently transported to a Pittsburgh hospital for treatment. Another victim was treated and released, while the other two received treatment at the scene.

United Steelworkers Local 2911 has joined ArcelorMittal — the world’s largest maker of steel — in an investigation. The plant, located at 100 Pennsylvania Avenue (West Virginia Route 105), produces sheets of rolled steel for cans and is located roughly 30 miles west of Pittsburgh.

A Monday morning single-vehicle accident on Route 16, outside of Mount Hope in Fayette County, resulted in the death of one man. According to Oak Hill State Police, at about 9 a.m., Marshall Spinks Jr., 45, of White Sulphur Springs, wrecked the logging truck he was driving in an area known as “dead man’s curve.”

As they reconstructed the scene, police believed that Mr. Spinks entered into the sharp curve and lost control of his truck. The vehicle veered off the roadside and fell down a 40-foot bank.

The truck likely rolled, damaging the truck’s frame and crushing the roof. Mr. Spinks was apparently not wearing his seat belt and was ejected from the vehicle. Mr. Spinks was pronounced dead at the scene.

Route 16 remained shut down through mid-afternoon while Evergreen Environmental Management Inc. cleaned up the scene.

According to police, Renea Parsons and her two children were killed Sunday in collision along Interstate 77 in Jackson County.

Ms. Parsons was driving northbound when she lost control of her car, crossing the median and into the southbound lanes of I-77 near the Fairplain exit.

The other car involved in the accident was driven by Amy Vandorp of North Carolina, who struck the passenger’s side of Ms. Parsons’ car.

Ms. Parsons, along with her 3-month-old daughter and 2-year-old son, were killed. The 2-year-old son survived the initial crash and was rushed to CAMC General Hospital where he later died.

The accident, which occurred around 2:30 p.m. Sunday, closed the southbound lanes of I-77 near mile marker 133 while crews responded. By 5:15, the southbound lanes were back open.

The driver of the Dodge Ram pickup truck was was thrown from the vehicle when it flipped over on the Amandaville Bridge. After the collision and hitting a concrete barrier head-on, the SUV driver was trapped inside that vehicle.

There was no immediate report on either driver’s medical condition.

The accident remains under investigation.

A double fatality was the result of a crash that involved a pickup and a coal truck. The head-on collision took place on Route 60 on Friday in Glasgow.

Mary Turner, 66, and Franklin Holdren, 71, were killed when their pickup collided head-on with a coal truck. Ms. Turner was driving the pickup, and Mr. Holdren was riding in the back of the pickup at the time of the crash.

Two other passengers in the pickup survived and remained hospitalized with serious injuries at press time. The coal truck driver had only minor injuries.