CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Virginia State Police were on the scene of a single tractor-trailer crash on I-64 eastbound in Chesapeake Wednesday morning.
As a result, two of the left lanes were shut down at the 299-mile marker. That's near the Bower's Hill exit and interchange heading towards Suffolk and Newport News.
The Virginia Department of Transportation placed a detour at the S. Military Highway exit.
Police first got the call about the crash shortly after 6 a.m.
The lanes were reopened later in the afternoon after crews had cleared the scene.
A preliminary investigation revealed that the driver of the 2021 Freightliner began to fishtail and ran off the roadway into the median.
An update from Virginia State Police shortly before 8 a.m. confirmed that one person, the driver, had died.
He's been identified as Terrance Wardell Riddick, 58.