Lindside, W.V : One student dead, one critical in Monroe crash on Monday morning, April 10, 2017

One James Monroe High School student was killed and another was airlifted by helicopter to a hospital after a two-vehicle motor vehicle crash Monday morning, according to Monroe County officials.

Monroe County Sheriff Shawn Crosier said the students were headed to James Monroe High School when the accident occurred. The incident occurred just before 8:30 a.m. Monday morning, Crosier said.

“They were coming from a T-style intersection, Pine Grove Road, and were turning onto U.S. 219,” Crosier said. “They were going to make a left and go to school, which is also North on 219.”

Crosier said based upon the preliminary investigation, it appears that the car the students were in pulled out in front of a truck. Crosier said the truck was headed southbound.

“It was a large truck, it was either a three-quarter truck or a ton truck, I’m not sure," Crosier said. "The truck struck the car causing it to go sideways and over an embankment onto its top.”

Deputies determined Adam Timothy Smithson, 31, of Lindside was traveling south on US 219 in a 2002 Ford F-250 pickup truck when a 1989 Honda Accord driven by a juvenile, age 17 pulled onto US219 from Pine Grove Road.

The two vehicles collided and the force pushed the Honda Accord over the embankment and onto its top.

The 17-year-old juvenile driver was pronounced dead at the scene while a female passenger age 14, also of Lindside, was flown to Roanoke Memorial Hospital where she remains in critical condition.

Smithson was transported to Giles County Hospital by the Peterstown Volunteer Fire Department Rescue Squad.

The exact cause of the accident remains under investigation by Chief Deputy K.D. Hedrick.

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UPDATED: One student dead, one critical in Monroe crash