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Motorcycle accident leaves two dead
BY JAMES JACENICH • STAFF WRITER
MONTEREY - Sunday afternoon around 3:30 p.m., a motorcycle driven by Robert Litten, 73, of Woodstock, ran off U.S. 250 at the foot of the west side of Shenandoah Mountain in Highland County, went up an embankment and flipped over.
Litten died at the scene. His wife, Shirley, 70, was a passenger on the motorcycle. She was injured in the accident, transported to U.Va. Medical Center in Charlottesville by helicopter, but died that night.
Trooper Gregg Stump of the Virginia State Police was investigating officer.
Robert Litten was a retired auto sales manager for Dudley Martin Chevrolet in Manassas. He worked as a newspaper courier for The Free Press in Woodstock and occasionally brought the weekly editions of The Recorder to Highland County for distribution.
He was a member of the Woodstock American Legion.
Mrs. Litten was a retired bookkeeper for the Northern Virginia Electric Co-op and a volunteer at the Thrift Shop.
The Littens were members of the Woodstock United Methodist Church.
A son, daughter, sisters, brothers and grandchildren survive them.
A second motorcycle accident occurred at the same time on Doe Hill Road north of McDowell. A motorcycle driven by a Andrea Boggs, 52, of Franklin, W.Va., was injured when her motorcycle ran off the road.
She was treated and released at U.Va. Medical Center, said Trooper John Bostic.
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