NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A Virginia State Police (VSP) trooper was struck by a speeding vehicle heading the wrong way on Interstate 64 in Newport News early Saturday morning, authorities said.
Following multiple reports, troopers responded to the interstate near Oyster Point Road at around 3:45 a.m. where they found a driver, later identified as 26-year-old Elijah Jones, heading west in the eastbound lanes.
State Trooper M. LeSage was in the eastbound lanes trying to stop Jones when he was "struck head on at a high rate of speed by the wrong way driver," according to VSP.
Trooper LeSage was taken to Riverside Hospital in Williamsburg with serious injuries. He is expected to survive, however.
Jones was not hurt in the crash.
He was subsequently arrested and booked into the Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail on felony driving under the influence/maiming and open container charges.
