KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. — Deputies with the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department say a decision about possible charges against the driver of the vehicle that struck and killed a woman on Route 60 in Kanawha County early Sunday will not come until after a crash reconstruction is completed.
“An investigation like this typically takes awhile,” said Corporal Brian Humphreys, spokesperson for the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department. “These reconstruction reports are pretty intensive on the analytic side of things.”
A newspaper delivery person found the body of Robin Marie Campbell, 49, most recently of St. Albans, W.Va., on Route 60 west of St. Albans on Sunday morning and contacted authorities. Deputies determined she’d been hit by a vehicle around 3 a.m. that day.
Later Sunday, “Somebody called our office and said that they saw a vehicle that looked like it had been involved in a crash,” according to Humphreys who said that lead investigators to a GMC Yukon that was found along Route 2 in Putnam County.
The vehicle was towed to the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department’s evidence processing garage. With that vehicle, deputies were able to find the registered owners and the person who had been driving it at the time Campbell was possibly hit.
The Kanawha County crash reconstruction team is now working on a report to determine several key pieces of information — such as the vehicle’s speed at the time of the crash and exact point of impact.
“After they have had a chance to review everything, we hope to present that to the prosecuting attorney’s office and the detectives will then confer with them about any charges that may be filed in the case,” Humphreys told MetroNews.