Police stress safe driving following uptick in fatal accidents across the state
Local and state police have raised alarm bells over driving behaviors after a spike in fatal traffic crashes in the days following Memorial Day weekend.
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Local and state police have raised alarm bells over driving behaviors after a spike in fatal traffic crashes in the days following Memorial Day weekend.
The crash occurred at about 2:40 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of I-64 in Chesapeake.
Safety inspector Dennis Parton, 48, of Newport News, was working at a construction zone in Goochland County Thursday night when a dump truck backed into him.
The Virginia State Police is investigating the early Tuesday death of a man in a single-vehicle crash on U.S. Route 23.
Operation DISS-rupt gets underway Wednesday, April 3, and will cover all 299 miles of I-64 in the commonwealth for two days.