Around 1:24 a.m. Kanawha County Sheriff’s Deputies and medics with the Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority were dispatched to Second Creek Road in Sissonville for a crash.
A pickup truck with at least six occupants was driving toward I-77 on Second Creek negotiating a left hand turn. A passenger sitting in a window on the passenger side of the truck had his legs in the vehicle and was holding onto the roof. As the truck went through the curve it went off the roadway edge to the right and a tree struck the passenger killing him.
The driver, 20 year old Dakota Z. Miller of Charleston, WV, was arrested for DUI causing death, a felony. His blood alcohol content was 0.143% when a sample was later taken.
We will release the name of the deceased tomorrow.