Warrenton, VA : A single-vehicle truck crash on Atoka Road in Marshall on Friday, August 18, 2017

A Frederick, Maryland man was killed Friday morning in a single-vehicle truck crash on Atoka Road in Marshall.

Joseph Scribellito, 59, was traveling north on Atoka Road in an International truck with a drilling rig when he lost control just before 11 a.m. near Rectors Road, said state police Sgt. Les Tyler.

The truck ran off the road to the right, the driver overcorrected and the truck crossed back over, went off the left side of the road, struck an embankment and overturned.

Scribellito died at the scene, Tyler said.

Trooper T.B. Ralls is investigating.

Two seconds earlier and Marshall resident Lennart Lundh would have been hit head-on, he said Saturday. “It was very close.”

“I was going south on Atoka. Right before I met the truck going north, I saw him going off the road slightly,” Lundh said. “When we passed each other he had all wheels on his right side in the grass and I was hoping he would be careful getting the truck back up on the road again.”

Lundh said he drives on Atoka almost every day and says the asphalt is several inches above grade in places and “you don't see it because of the grass growing taller than the surface of the road.”

Lundh said when he looked in his rear-view mirror “I saw the truck going up on the road right behind me, but almost perpendicular to the road. I saw the truck tip over and roll over before it stopped.”

Lundh called 911 and said police, ambulances and fire trucks “arrived within minutes, but sadly there was nothing they could do to save the life of the driver,” he said.

“Strangely,” Lundh says this is the second time he has seen an accident like this in the same place on Atoka Road.

“A couple of years ago I saw a girl in a heavy SUV sitting in the field where the truck crashed,” he recalled. “She had clipped one telephone pole and the power lines were on the ground. It was the exact same scenario. She drove off the road on the right side, I saw the tracks in the snow, overcompensated and ended up in the field to the left, luckily without hurting herself.”

Atoka Road is a dangerous, Lundh says, because of the lack of shoulders and the difference in height between the surface of the road and the ground on the side of the road.

“Perhaps proper shoulders can save lives in the future,” he suggested.

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Maryland man killed in Marshall crash