2/1/23

Virginia State Police are trying to figure how or why a driver was going the wrong way on Interstate 81 in southern Augusta County yesterday afternoon that triggered a fatal head-on collision.

Spokesperson Corinne Geller says the crash happened shortly after one o’clock near mile marker 208.

The driver of the Honda that going the wrong way was 59-year-old Ronald Trick Junior of Sunbury, Pennsylvania. He died at the scene.

The driver of the pickup, 51-year-old Williams Burns of Clifton Forge, also died at the scene, while his 55-year-old wife, Sandra Burns, died enroute to the hospital.