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CHARLESTON, WV — The West Virginia Governor’s Highway Safety Program (GHSP) has teamed up with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to remind drivers and motorcyclists to drive and ride sober as summer begins to wind down. The National If You Feel Different, You Drive Different campaign runs from August 16, 2024, through Read More…
Trooper J.D. Richards of the West Virginia State Police was conducting stationary road patrol at the intersection of Rt. 16 and U. S. 33/119 in Arnoldsburg on October 1, 2023, when his doppler radar alarmed. He observed an ATV traveling at the speed of 66 mph in a 44 mph zone. After catching up with Read More…
In a complaint filed in the Magistrate Court of Calhoun by Trooper J.D. Richards, he stated that on Saturday, September 23rd, 2023, shortly after midnight, he observed a tan Chevy pickup traveling at 47 miles per hour in the 40 mph zone in Arnoldsburg. He initiated a traffic stop at which time the truck swerved Read More…
On Wednesday, August 27th 2023 at around 8:55 p.m., Corporal D.C. Moore was dispatched to a single vehicle accident along Chenowith Drive, off of Nicut Road, near the Ebenezer Church in the area of Orma, WV. When Cpl. Moore arrived on scene he found the defendant, Adam Turner, sitting in the ambulance being examined by Read More…
Trooper J.D. Richards of the West Virginia State Police was notified on Friday, August 4, 2023 at approximately 11:10 p.m. that a vehicle was parked in the middle of the road, not allowing other drivers to go around the vehicle in the 1000 block of Oka Road., Chloe, Calhoun County. When witnesses tried to make Read More…
Nathan Ault of Buckhannon, WV was arrested for DUI following a single vehicle accident on Town Hill just outside of Grantsville shortly before 9 p.m. on Thursday, June 29th. Grantsville Volunteer Fire Department responded to the scene where Ault had ran into an extremely deep ditch, citing the avoidance of a deer, and causing extensive Read More…
Information taken from the complaint of Corporal D.C. Moore filed in the Magistrate Court of Richard Postalwait: On Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at approximately 10:30 p.m., Corporal DC Moore, observed ablue in color, Ford Escape, parked in the 1700 block of Norman Ridge. The vehicle had its lights on, and the drivers door was hanging Read More…
Calhoun Control dispatched the Arnoldsburg Volunteer Fire Department, Calhoun EMS, Westfall’s Wrecker Service and the Calhoun Sheriff’s Department to a single vehicle accident on Altizer Road, Arnoldsburg on Thursday Evening. There were no injuries reported but Sheriff Warrenm Basnett arrested the vehicle driver Roger Ray Philips for DUI.
On Tuesday, February 7, 2023, at approximately 8:10 a.m. Cpl. J.B. Hunt was contacted by Calhoun Control and advised that a person reported that they were following a white in color vehicle on WV Route 16, South Calhoun Hwy, near Wolf Run Road. The driver was driving erratically even hitting the guardrail several times. They gave the license number to 911 and Read More…
In the Midnight hour, Saturday into Sunday, Calhoun Control Dispatched the Arnoldsburg Volunteer Fire Department, WV State Police and Minnie Hamilton Health System’s ambulance to a single vehicle crash in front of the Family Dollar Store in Arnoldsburg on Route 33/119. There were no reported injuries, but the driver, 18 year old Andrew Kole Bartlett Read More…
