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A recent Virginia auto accident, in which a Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) tester was fatally injured, was the worst in Virginia DMV history.
Culpeper and Fauquier motorists often wonder how DMV testers can stand the stress of being driven around on busy highways by novice and inexperienced drivers. The Williamsburg crash two weeks ago shows just how real the risks are.
56-year-old DMV tester Shirley Martin was conducting a driving test along Parkway Drive in Williamsburg when the driver, a 36-year-old woman, suddenly crossed Penniman Road onto a dirt trail. She drove the 1998 Honda into a field where the car flipped after striking a tree.
The women were trapped and could only be evacuated after the roof was cut away. Martin was airlifted to Medical College of Virginia Hospital in Richmond where she died the next day.
"This accident, when I read about it, was horrible for me," said Karen Greene, a DMV employee who suffered a serious accident six years ago in Fredericksburg. She was injured while administering a road test to a young man who was about to make a left turn onto a busy highway. "The sign said yield on green," she recalled, "and he didn't." A tractor-trailer hit them head-on.
Greene was trapped in the vehicle after the accident and had to be cut out of the car; however, she and the young man only sustained minor injuries. Greene says she still struggles with claustrophobia on the road, especially when flanked by 18-wheelers.
The Virginia accident lawyers at Dulaney, Lauer & Thomas thank the DMV drivers who put their lives in the hands of inexperienced drivers each and every day and offer our condolences to the family and friends of Shirley Martin.
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