CHARLES CITY, Va. (WAVY) — A 9-year-old boy from Williamsburg is dead after a Saturday vehicle crash on John Tyler Memorial Highway, Virginia State Police said.
According to officials, at around 5:25 p.m. on June 15, a 2005 Acura TSX was headed eastbound on John Tyler Memorial Highway in Charles City County when it ran off of the road and crashed into a tree.
Virginia State Police said the driver, 40-year-old Shawnell Eley of Yorktown, and a passenger, a 9-year-old boy from Williamsburg, died at the scene. Two other juvenile passengers were severely injured as a result of the crash and transferred to the VCU Medical Center in Richmond.
Police said Eley was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
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