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Reva resident Justin Embrey knows first hand
about the dangers that could occur while driving through one of
Culpeper’s busiest intersections.
His brother-in-law Joshua Lee Burke, 22, and Victoria Ashley Burke
both of King George were killed Sept. 1 during Labor Day weekend
following a two-vehicle crash near the intersection of U.S. 29 and
Alanthus Road in Brandy Station.
A tow truck northbound on U.S. 29 plowed into their 2003 GMC Chevy
pickup truck, Embrey said, leaving the couple’s 3-month-old daughter an
orphan and his family in “total dismay.”
Their backseat passenger, John Ifiah Lizotte — who was ejected and
found on the median — was flown to Inova Fairfax Hospital for his
injuries.
Today, Lizotte receives daily medical assistance from his mother and a medically trained professional.
This fatal wreck occurred within minutes of the proposed overpass at
the intersection of U.S. 29 and Route 666 where the county’s new high
school, Eastern View, opens this fall. The thought of novice motorists
driving to get to class frightens school officials to no end.
But a slowing economy, decreasing revenues and increasing
maintenance costs has forced the Virginia Department of Transportation
to put the brakes on a number of highly anticipated road projects in
Culpeper.
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