I-40 flagger hit, killed
Grants woman run down by alleged drunken driver

Richard Malone of the Office of Medical Investigator and Assistant District Attorney Alex Beattie look under a tarp where the body of Vivian Williams lay at exit 63 on Interstate 40 in Prewiit. — © 2009 Gallup Independent / Brian Leddy

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Gallup Independent
By Phil Stake
Staff writer

PREWITT — A female construction worker was killed Thursday by an allegedly drunken driver.

Milroy Vandever, 36, faces vehicular homicide charges after he ran over a road-construction flagger just off Interstate Highway 40 at exit 63. The victim, 47-year-old Vivian Williams, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to District 6 New Mexico State Police Sgt. Rod Huffman. She lived in the Mount Taylor Addition in Grants.

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