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Wednesday, December 24, 2014Area:
Richmond-Petersburg, VAAlexandri McKinney, 48, from Hackensack, died Wednesday when the car she was riding in crashed on Interstate 95 in Virginia. McKinney was pronounced deceased at a local hospital after the 5 a.m. crash in Chesterfield County. The driver of the 2010 Toyota Camry, Xaviar N. Sanders, 19, of Homestead, Florida, was charged with reckless driving after he drove off the right side of the highway, overcorrected, drove the car back onto the road across several lanes of traffic and into the barrier. McKinney was not wearing a seatbelt.
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Monday, October 13, 2014Area:
Richmond-Petersburg, VAWillie A. Ward, 40, a truck driver, died Monday after pulling over on Interstate 95 to inspect his truck. The incident occured around 1:20 a.m. on October 13 when the driver of a Ford box truck, Paul E. Sharpless, 66, swerved off the road and hit Ward while he got out of his truck. The box truck overturned on the on ramp. Sharpless sustained minor injuries and refused treatment. Ward was taken to Southern VA Regional Medical center, where he died. Sharpless was charged with reckless driving.
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Saturday, March 22, 2014Area:
Washington, DCA shuttle bus struck a guardrail and overturned before dawn Sunday along busy Interstate 95 south of the nation’s capital, leaving one person dead and sending 16 others to the hospital, Virginia State Police said.
The bus was headed south on the heavily traveled East Coast artery when witnesses reported a white, speeding four-door passenger vehicle swerved into the bus’s travel lane.