New Kent ,VA : One person died and two others injured after car crushed between two tractor-trailers in a five-vehicle wreck along Interstate 64 in New Kent County on Wednesday , March 11th 2015

Virginia State Police say one person died after a car was crushed between two tractor-trailers in a five-vehicle wreck on Interstate 64 in New Kent County.

State police say in a news release that the accident occurred Wednesday when one tractor-trailer hit a pickup truck as it approached traffic slowed by a disabled vehicle. The pickup spun and hit a van, which collided with the tractor-trailer. The tractor-trailer then hit a work truck and the car. The car was pushed into another tractor-trailer.

The car's driver, 43-year-old Jennifer P. Wilson of Richmond, died at the scene. The work truck's driver suffered non-life threatening injuries and was taken to a nearby hospital.

The driver of the first tractor-trailer, 39-year-old Ira D. Vestal of Conover, North Carolina, was charged with reckless driving.



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1 killed in I-64 wreck involving 2 tractor-trailers, 3 passenger vehicles in New Kent County