A truck driver did all he could to avoid a deadly crash, but one person was killed in Virginia after smashing into the back of the semi, police say.

Haymarket resident Jose Ramirez, 55, was killed early on Wednesday morning, when he slammed into a tractor-trailer on James Madison Highway, according to the Prince William County Police Department.

Officers were called at around 5:45 a.m. on Oct. 15 to a stretch of the highway near Logmill Road in Haymarket, where there was a violent crash.

Police say that the driver of a 2012 Freightliner semi-truck was making a left turn from a private driveway onto the highway, attempting to travel southbound.

At the time he was making the turn, traffic was clear in both directions, they noted.

During the turn, Ramirez's Mazda CX5 was traveling northb

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