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A Colonial Heights man was killed in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 295 in Henrico County.
Police say the driver lost control after his Ford F-350 pickup truck blew a tire.
The truck ran off the road, overturned, and landed on train tracks below an overpass.
Virginia State Police say a Colonial Heights man was killed when his pick-up truck blew a a tire and went over a guardrail on southbound Interstate 295 in Henrico County.
In a statement, state police Sgt. Jessica Shehan said the crash happened around 1:40 p.m. Sept. 24 at the 26-mile marker of I-295, about a mile away from the Route 895 Pocahontas Parkway interchange. The truck, a 2008 Ford F-350, was southbound when it blew a tire.
Shehan said the blowout caused the driver, 54-year-old Jacob Scott South