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A Newport News man lost his life in a motorcycle crash on Interstate 81 Monday afternoon.
Deborah Cox with the Virginia State Police said the crash happened around 3 p.m. in the northbound lanes of Interstate 81 near the 48 mile marker in Smyth County. Witnesses told troopers a motorcycle was traveling north when it went off the left side of the road.
The motorcycle hit a guardrail and the driver, identified as Robert Henry Webber, 69, of Newport News, was ejected. He died at the scene.
A man was killed in a crash near the intersection of Hunters Point Pike and North Hartman Drive on Monday night.
The Lebanon Police Department says 47-year-old Harold Dee Jones was killed when he rear-ended a Freightliner truck cab around 9:30 p.m.
According to officials, Jones was unable to stop his pickup truck in time to avoid hitting the truck cab, which was stopped at the traffic signal at North Hartman Drive.
Police say they don't believe Jones was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash.
A 19-year-old man was killed in a one-car rollover Monday night in the Yelm area, and the driver was arrested in connection with his death. The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office reports the rollover occurred around 9 p.m. June 24 in the 15800 block of Bald Hill Road Southeast. Investigators say the vehicle rolled onto its top after trying to navigate a sharp curve. The male occupant of a 2013 Chevrolet Camaro was partially ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene, according to the sheriff’s office.
Two of the three people killed when their vehicle was hit by an Amtrak train in Mansfield[2] earlier this week were identified Wednesday.
Zachary Keene, 26, of Raynham and David Curry, 28 of Foxboro, were in an SUV or a truck when a train from Washington, D.C. bound for Boston late Sunday night slammed into it around midnight, causing the train to derail. A third victim has not been identified.
It’s still not clear where the vehicle entered the tracks or how it ended up there, but it was dragged for at least a mile.