CHESAPEAKE, Va. — A driver died after hitting a utility pole in Chesapeake on Campostella Road, police said.
Chesapeake police responded to a single-vehicle crash near the 2000 block of Campostella Rd. around 7 p.m. Sunday.
Police say the driver veered off the road into a utility pole and then hit the back of a business near the corner of Campostella Road and Battlefield Boulevard.
52-year-old Clarence Edward Whitehurst Jr., who was the only occupant of the vehicle, was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
Police say the crash initially caused a gas leak that has since been stopped. Electricity outages were reported in the area as a result of the crash.
The Chesapeake Police Crash Reconstruction team responded and continues to investigate the crash.
The crash remains under investigation.