April 15th, 2025 by WCBC Radio

A tractor trailer driver is charged with vehicular manslaughter after his truck struck and killed a West Virginia Turnpike worker.  State police troopers allege Anvar Sabirov, 28, of Rego Park, NY, failed to get in the correct lane in a I-77/Turnpike work zone south of Charleston Monday morning at around 11 a.m.  Investigators said he swerved to miss a dump truck and then the back of his truck struck the Turnpike worker James Harper, 23, of Beckley, who was patching a hole in the highway. A criminal complaint said video shows Sabirov had his head down as his truck was entering the work zone. He told troopers he was not on his phone.