A Kanawha County woman is dead after being hit by a tractor-trailer while trying to save her dog.
Linda Sloan, 50, of Nitro stopped her car on Route 25 in Nitro Tuesday evening when her dog got into the road and was hit by a car.
Police say Sloan went into the road to get her dog, but traffic began moving again and she was struck and killed by the tractor-trailer. Eyewitnesses say there’s no way the driver saw her.
