Plant worker dies after car collides with school bus

KEYSER, W.Va. — Police in Mineral County say a driver may have fallen asleep after working the midnight shift causing an accident that claimed his life.

Sergei Johnson, 21, of Keyser, was on his way home Thursday morning after working the night at the Pilgrim’s Pride plant in Moorefield when his vehicle went into the path of a Mineral County school bus on U.S. Route 50 at the Tanglewood subdivision, according to Mineral County Sheriff Jeremy Taylor.

Johnson was trapped in the wreckage and pronounced dead at the scene at shortly after 8 a.m.

The bus driver, Amos Pancake, 42, of New Creek, was not injured. There were no children on the bus at the time, Taylor said.

An investigation into the deadly crash is continuing.





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