Separate one-car accidents kill two

By Rhonda Simmons

Published: May 19, 2008

A single-car crash killed an 8-year-old Remington boy in the northern part of Culpeper County Friday night, according to the Virginia State Police.

A couple of hours later, a 19-year-old Bealeton man was killed after a single-vehicle crash in Fauquier County.

Orion Bickings, 8, was riding in a 1999 Acura four-door eastbound on Lakota Road about a mile west of Clover Hill Road around 10:20 p.m. when the incident occurred.

The driver, Fielding Taylor Kines, 38, of Remington apparently lost control of the vehicle and ran off the left side of the road, went over an embankment and rolled several times before he struck a wooden fence and landed in a field.

Bickings died at the scene.

Neither Kines, nor his 5-year-old passenger were injured. Tyler said they were both wearing seat belts but Bickings wasn’t.

Trooper J.K. Hathaway responded to the scene.

Members of the Virginia Bureau of Investigations and the accident investigations team assisted with this investigation. Culpeper’s sheriff’s deputies and local rescue and fire departments also responded to the scene.

Kines was charged with manslaughter, driving under the influence of alcohol and driving on a suspended license.

Kines’ girlfriend is the mother of both children. She was not in the vehicle at the time of the crash.

Around 12:30 a.m. Saturday, Rue Edward McGee III was driving on Route 846 less than a mile south of Route 610 when his 1996 Ford Truck entered a curve at a high rate of speed, ran off the left side of the road and struck a utility pole and a tree, according to Virginia State Police Spokesman Sgt. Les Tyler.

Trooper R.A. Stiltner investigated the crash, which caused a number of power outages in that area, Tyler added.

McGee, who was not wearing a seat belt, died at the scene.

Tyler urges motorists to always utilize their seat belts at all times when traveling in vehicles.

“The common factor in recent accidents in the area is the lack of seat belt usage,” Tyler said.