An early morning crash on I-64 in New Kent County left one person dead on June 1, 2008. A speeding car struck a van from behind at 12:30 a.m. and burst into flames. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The van’s driver and passegner were taken to a Williamsburg hospital and treated for minor injuries. They had been wearing their seat belts.
Meanwhile, in Chesapeake, a crash on I-664 where the driver lost control of a speeding car killed two teenagers. Neither of them were wearing seat belts when the car ran off the road and into a ditch in the highway median. The car flipped several times, throwing the passenger from the car. The vehicle’s driver was taken by ambulance to Sentara norfolk, where she died. A 15 year old boy, who was also in the car, suffered life-threatening inuries and was flown to a trauma center in Norfolk.