HANOVER COUNTY, Va. — A woman is dead following a crash involving two tractor-trailers and an SUV on Interstate 95 northbound in Hanover County, Virginia State Police confirmed Thursday.
The crash occurred near mile marker 97, just before the Doswell exit. State police were called to the scene at 4:25 a.m.
Intitial investigation shows that a Lexus SUV made a "sudden and drastic" maneuver into the center lane of I-95. A tractor trailer attempted to avoid a collision by merging into the left lane.
State police say the SUV then struck the tractor-trailer, pushing it into a second tractor-trailer in the right lane and causing one of the tractor-trailers to jackknife.
The SUV ran off the road and hit two trees, state police said. The driver, Stella Ogechi Amadi, 56, of Windsor Mill, Maryland, was taken to an area hospital where she died from her injuries.
The crash shut down the roadway for about six hours. Just after 10 a.m., the Virginia Department of Transportation said the roadway had reopened.
The crash remains under active investigation.
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