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CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — A Virginia man accused of driving under the influence and leaving the scene of a crash last month that resulted in the death of a tractor-trailer driver is due to appear next week in Jefferson County (W.Va.) Magistrate Court for a preliminary hearing.
Kenneth Jerome Lee, 45, of Strasburg, Va., was charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving death and driving under the influence causing death, court records said.
Lee was being held Wednesday night at Eastern Regional Jail near Martinsburg, W.Va., on a $150,000 bond, according to jail records.
Lee is due to appear in magistrate court Thursday.
Police have said that the victim, William P. Snyder Sr., 60, of Parkville, Md., died at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., as a result of being struck outside his rig along U.S. 340.
Lee initially was taken to Rappahannock Shenandoah Warren Regional Jail in Virginia after he was captured in Warren County, Va., where he also was charged with driving under the influence and a related civil violation of refusing blood/breath test, according to police and court records.
Police have said that Snyder was checking his tractor-trailer Jan. 21 along southbound U.S. 340 near Eackles-Spencer and Norton Funeral Home when he was struck by a black sport utility vehicle. The SUV stopped briefly, then left the scene, police said.
Jefferson County Sheriff Pete Dougherty has said his department obtained pictures of the SUV, its license plate and the driver from a nearby convenience store, where the vehicle was before Snyder was struck
Multiple witnesses saw the SUV strike Snyder, police have said.
One of the witnesses was behind the SUV before Snyder was struck and saw the vehicle swerving in and out of traffic and driving in the wrong lane, police have said.
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