Kitchener man injured in West Virginia crash

Posted Mar 1, 2014 07:20:20 AM.

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A local couple is recovering after a freak accident in West Virgina Thursday afternoon.

WDTV reports a tire popped off of a tractor trailer travelling southbound on I-79, bounced across the highway, and smashed into the windshield of a car heading northbound.

The driver, 50-year-old Graham Scroggie, was flown to hospital via air ambulance and remains in critical condition.

570 News has learned that Scroggie grew up in Kitchener, and currently lives in the Belwood area.

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