Crime & Safety
Tractor Trailer Driver Cited In Fatal Crash On I-95: VA State Police
A 34-year-old Tennessee man was charged in connection to an early morning crash that killed two people on I-95, according to police.
SPOTSYLVANIA, VA — A tractor trailer driver was charged in connection to an early morning crash on Interstate 95 that left two people dead, a Virginia State Police spokesman told Patch on Thursday.
Around 1:06 a.m., on Nov. 5, a 2013 Dodge Ram pulling a utility trailer was heading southbound on the interstate near the 126-mile marker in Spotsylvania County, according to VSP. The truck veered off the roadway to the right and slammed into a tractor trailer that was parked on the shoulder, causing the Ram to catch fire, according to the state police.
The two occupants of the Ram died at the scene and the tractor trailer driver was uninjured, according to police.
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Wendall R. Phillips, 34, of Morristown, Tennessee, was cited for improper parking, according to the VSP spokesman. Police have not released the names of the two people killed in the crash.
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