LOUDENDALE, W.Va. — The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department has released the names of the victims in a double fatal crash that happened Wednesday morning near Kanawha State Forest.
Deputies said Matthew Cornell, 56, and his wife, Tracey Cornell, 55, of Charleston, died when the pickup truck Matthew Cornell was driving went off Kanawha State Forest Drive at about 9:30 a.m., struck a tree and overturned in the bed of Davis Creek.
Both died at the scene, deputies said.
The crash remains under investigation.
The sheriff’s department’s Friday news release said the department wanted to remind motorists and passengers to wear their seatbelts.