Richmond, VA: 1 killed in head-on wreck on I-89 in Richmond on Thursday, July 30th 2015
One person was killed in a head-on crash when a car crossed the median just north of exit 11 on Interstate 89 in Richmond on Thursday night, state police said.The death was first confirmed by Vermont State Police Lt. John Flannigan, the night watch commander for northern Vermont.A young male driver who was "heavily entrapped" in his sedan had no pulse when emergency crews responded to the crash, reported shortly before 7:30 p.m., the Williston Fire Department said in a statement.Public safety units also found a young female driver who had been ejected from her car and had significant injuries, said firefighter Prescott Nadeau, the fire department's public information officer.EMS immediately treated the woman and then transported her to the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, he said.Names, ages and hometowns of the drivers were not released as of 10 p.m.A pick-up truck also was involved in the wreck. The vehicle sustained minor damage, and the driver indicated he did not want to be taken to the hospital, Nadeau said.The northbound lanes were closed for several hours after the crash.Amber Miles, in several public posts on Facebook, wrote Thursday night she was behind a car on I-89 when she saw the sedan drift into the median. The car "gained air and nose dived into the hood of another car going the opposite direction... Both cars were instantly in shreds," she wrote."That was the scariest thing I've ever seen. The person in the other lane never even saw it coming. My heart is really heavy right now. The car had just passed us, had to have been going at least 75-80," her post stated."I'm just glad we let them pass us. I feel so terrible for the people in the car on the other side," she wrote in another post.Vermont State Police Lt. Garry Scott, head of the department's Crash Reconstruction Team, confirmed the preliminary investigation showed one vehicle drifted across the median before the crash.
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1 killed in head-on wreck on I-89 in Richmond