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Halifax County, Va. | Former Councilman in Head-On Collision

Turner, 70, of Chatham, is in serious but stable condition at Lynchburg General Hospital.

Tuesday’s court case stemmed from an August incident in which Turner accidentally cut himself and initially told police that a black man had robbed and stabbed him. He later told police he made the story up.

Turner, who was fined $350 and given a 120-day suspended jail sentence in Pittsylvania County General District Court, filed an appeal the day of the trial.

Turner was heading east on Va. 57 in a 1995 Jeep Cherokee when he veered into the path of a westbound 1999 tractor trailer truck from Chatham-based Southside Timber Co., Inc., driven by an employee, Carl Rigney. Turner’s vehicle struck the tractor’s rear axles before hitting the back two axles on the trailer, Comer said. The Jeep was totaled.

“It looked like he was asleep,” Rigney told The Gazette-Virginian of South Boston. “He drove right into the side of the truck.”

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