Ripely , WV : Five pepole were killed after driver lost control on wet pavement and SUV was broadsided by southbound pickup and caught fire on Saturday Morning, December 6th 2014

Police say investigators believe weather played a role in a fiery accident that killed five people on Interstate 77. West Virginia State Police spokesman Lt. Michael Baylous says a northbound SUV went through a cable median into the southbound lanes after the driver lost control on wet pavement. The SUV was broadsided by a southbound pickup and caught fire. The accident occurred around 8:30 a.m. Saturday near the Ripley interchange. Baylous says all five victims were in the SUV. He identified them as 46-year-old Vivian Easton, 15-year-old Devon Easton Badger, 48-year-old Walter Taylor, 14-year-old Tahj Claiborne and 50-year-old Wallace Worrell. All of the victims were from Charleston. The pickup's driver and a sixth person in the SUV suffered non-life threatening injuries and were taken to a Charleston hospital. source : Police say weather likely played role in fiery wreck that killed 5 on I-77 near Ripley