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The truck was pulled from the bay on Wednesday. And bridge-tunnel police officers say they will look for mechanical malfunctions and review information from the truck’s black box.
The truck went off the Bridge-Tunnel on Tuesday morning. The vehicle is owned by Cloverland Greenspring Dairy, a company based in Baltimore.
The U.S. Coast Guard, the Virginia Beach Fire Department and various other responding organizations had coordinated efforts to find Mezick’s body. Witnesses to the crash had said they saw him get out the truck and drift west in the bay.
This wasn t the first vehicle to go over the side of the bridge. A tractor-trailer driver died of hypothermia in 2019 after his truck went into the water.
Print IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News Radio Credit: U.S. Coast Guard HH-60J Jayhawk helicopter passes over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel while on patrol April 5, 2003 in Portsmouth, Virginia. Patrols like this one can last nearly six hours and cover over 300 miles. The helicopter and its crew, fly a loosely planned patrol circuit as precaution against being predictable. The waters and bridge tunnels of Chesapeake Bay are of strategic importance because of the amount of shipping traffic that enters the bay for cargo terminals in the area. (Photo by Liza Mizelle/Getty Images)
The Coast Guard and local officials called off a daylong search Tuesday night for a man in the water near Virginia Beach following a tractor-trailer accident.