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Rubber-necking causes crash

Posted on Nov 28, 2006

Curiosity about one car crash allegedly caused another one on Friday morning. According to a Fauquier deputy's report, the wreck happened in the 7000 block of James Madison Highway (U.S. 17) north of Warrenton shortly after 11 a.m. Phillis Ann Kent, 60, of Marshall, was driving a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck when traffic slowed for state police, who were investigating another crash. "The driver of vehicle one looked over at the accident and did not realize that vehicle number two (a Fauquier County school bus) had stopped for traffic," the report states. "This was when vehicle number one rear-ended vehicle number two." Kent "admitted that the accident was her fault and took full responsibility," according to the report. No one was injured and Kent was not charged in connection with the accident