Victims identified in fatal Monongalia County accident

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia State Police have released the identities of two people involved in a deadly accident on Grafton Road Tuesday morning.

An Arthurdale man was killed when his car crossed the center line just south of the Hornbeck Road intersection and struck a flatbed traveling north.

According to Corporal T. W. Goodnight, Stevie Nickels, 21 of Arthurdale, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Charles Homer, 73 of Canonsburg, Pa., was treated and released from Ruby Memorial Hospital for injuries from the wreck.
Route 119 was closed for more than an hour and a half after that accident.

It happened about 10:20 a.m.