CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WRIC) — All lanes on Interstate 64 eastbound in Chesapeake were shut down after a deadly tractor-trailer crash Wednesday morning.
Virginia State Police are currently investigating the crash, which is said to have occurred around 6 a.m. on I-64 on the Hampton Roads Beltway, near mile marker 299. When police first received the call, they said the crash was believed to have a person possibly trapped.
Police now say one person was killed in the single-vehicle crash after a tractor-trailer ended up off the road, and overturned into a ditch in the median.
Traffic is being cleared off the interstate using the shoulder and the Virginia Department of Transportation placed a detour at the Military Highway exit.
