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The investigation of a fatal accident on the Cheat Lake Bridge at Interstate 68 last month that sent a car and its driver into the freezing water below now includes another vehicle, Monongalia Sheriff Todd Forbes said Thursday.
“The department is determining the level of involvement that 2025 Freightliner Tractor/Trailer may have had in a 2013 Hyundai going off the interstate bridge and into Cheat Lake,” the sheriff said in a release.
Kevin Lataille, 59, of Smithfield, Pa., died as a result of the Jan. 19 crash, which occurred at the height of a snowstorm that afternoon. He was still in his vehicle which was pulled from beneath the surface of the frozen-over lake a week later.
He was on his way home after completing his shift at the Patteson Drive Eat’n Park.
Forbes, meanwhile, said his department “will not speculate” on any particulars that may have led to the wreck while the investigation is ongoing.
County detectives and the department’s accident reconstruction team are still doing interviews and other vehicular diagnostic work related to the investigation, the sheriff stated in the release.
He didn’t immediately return calls in time for this report.
