A person is dead after a vehicle slammed into the rear of a work truck on southbound I-95 in Chesterfield County Tuesday night, near Route 288. The crash happened at mile marker 62.8, and the victim was trapped inside the wreckage before being pronounced dead at the scene.
According to WTVR, Virginia Statewide Incidents observed the crashed vehicle and the work truck at the scene and reported that the vehicle had struck the rear of the truck. The station's report notes that the crash occurred in the southbound lanes of I-95 near Route 288, right at mile marker 62.8.
Sources told the station that one person was heavily trapped inside the vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene. The outlet's report does not identify the victim, and no additional details about how the crash happened have been released.
Another Deadly I-95 Wreck Came Less Than a Month Earlier
Tuesday's fatal crash is not the first deadly incident on this stretch of I-95 in Chesterfield County this fall. On Oct. 6, 56-year-old Matthew Warren Jr. of Richmond died in a separate single-vehicle crash, as reported by WRIC. Virginia State Police said that crash happened just before 1 p.m. that day on northbound I-95 near Woods Edge Road, when a dump truck's rear tires were punctured, causing the driver to lose control before striking a concrete median barrier and overturning.
Chesterfield County's stretch of I-95 has also seen trouble tied to highway work zones. A separate incident described in a Virginia State Police report, detailed by Augusta Free Press, followed an earlier crash south of Route 10 in which a work-zone truck-mounted attenuator was struck from behind by another vehicle. In that incident, a northbound Toyota Camry struck the rear of a VDOT Safety Service Patrol vehicle, pushing it into a trooper's patrol vehicle.
That report said both the trooper and the Camry driver were injured, and the Camry driver was issued a summons for reckless driving. It is not clear whether Tuesday night's fatal crash near Route 288 is connected in any way to prior work-zone incidents on the corridor, and no official account from police or transportation authorities has been released describing how the vehicle came to strike the work truck.
