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Article: Doctor dies in wreck: BMW slams into building and utility pole along MacCorkle Avenue
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- February 15, 2005
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DAILY MAIL STAFF
A South Charleston doctor was killed after his BMW slammed into a
building and caused an explosion so violent that Charleston police
described it as the worst one-vehicle accident they have ever seen.
Timothy Gore, 43, was driving on MacCorkle Avenue SE about 11 p.m.
Monday when his car veered off the left edge of the road and struck
the old Preiser Scientific Building near the Kanawha Turnpike
intersection, said Cpl. Shawn Williams.
The car burst into flames when it crashed into the building and
then struck a utility pole, Williams said.
Gore was ejected from the vehicle. The main body of the car was
sheared in half and mangled into unrecognizable parts, police said.
Gore ...