A utility worker assisting Dominion Virginia Power with restoring power after Friday’s storms was killed in a multiple-vehicle crash, authorities said.
Jacqueline R. Green, 57, of Milton, Fla., died at the scene of the collision, which took place about 7:20 p.m. Tuesday on Route 7 near Bluemont, according to the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office.
Green was driving in a convoy of three Gulf Power trucks aiding Dominion Virginia Power crews. She was driving a 2004 Freightliner bucket truck pulling a service trailer northbound on Blue Ridge Mountain Road when there seem to have been issues with the brakes, officials said.
Witnesses said the Freightliner went into the southbound lanes of Blue Ridge Mountain Road and passed a truck in a convoy of utility vehicles. The vehicle that Green was driving then went downhill and into the eastbound lanes of Route 7 and struck a 2008 Freightliner trucktractor-semitrailer, which was pushed into the side of a 2012 Toyota Tacoma.
A front seat passenger in the bucket truck — Florida resident Jonathan Powell — and the driver of the semitrailer were taken to hospitals, sheriff’s office officials said. The Toyota’s driver and her juvenile passenger were taken to a hospital, where they were treated and released.
Witnesses told authorities that it seemed that Green lost control of the bucket truck’s brakes and that the vehicle picked up speed as it continued downhill.
