WELLSBURG — Wellsburg Council was asked, earlier this month, to consider memorializing the driver who managed to veer his runaway truck away from buildings and people and into the Ohio River, resulting in his own death.

The panel also agreed to establish one polling place for the city’s elections, though that move is pending input from its legal counsel.

Joe Mullenbach, owner of Mullenbach Funeral Home, asked council to consider establishing a memorial to Gerald “Jerry” Davis, who was at the wheel of the tractor-trailer that sped through city streets and into the Ohio River on July 18.

Mullenbach and others have noted Davis managed not to hit multiple moving and parked vehicles and buildings along his path as the truck hurtled downhill from state Route 27 and through two major intersect

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