DINWIDDIE − Two people were killed and several others injured in a six-vehicle crash Friday morning on southbound Interstate 85 that also involved a tractor-trailer, state police said.
The crash closed lanes in both directions for the majority of the morning. The northbound lanes were reopened to traffic around 11:30 a.m.
The southbound lanes finally were cleared shortly before 7 p.m., according to the Virginia Department of Transportation, almost 12 hours after the 7:45 a.m. crash happened.
The accident happened at the 40.2-mile marker on I-85, about 2.5 miles south of the state Route 40 interchange in McKenney. The fatalities were in a car that caught fire when the tractor-trailer rammed it into a tree.
Their bodies were taken to the state medical examiner’s office in Richmond for positive identification.
A total of four occupants from among the five cars involved were taken to local hospitals. Two of them were airlifted to VCU Medical Center for treatment.
Photos from the scene indicate that an SUV and a work van were among the wrecked vehicles.
The crash remains under investigation.
The deaths are among four reported on Dinwiddie roads in a week. A 77-year-old Petersburg man and a 14-month-old North Carolina child were killed in separate crashes on Dabney Mill Road and I-85 over the Memorial Day weekend.
This article originally appeared on The Progress-Index: Interstate 85 crash in Dinwiddie kills two people, hurts four others
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