A Lynchburg man died Tuesday after he was ejected from his car in a single-vehicle wreck in Appomattox County, Virginia State Police said.
Aleph Harrison Mays Jr., 25, died in a Lynchburg-area hospital shortly before 9 p.m. Mays was traveling south on Route 611 about 7:30 p.m. when his car went off the road and overturned.
Mays was not wearing a seat belt, authorities said.
State police also reported four other roadway deaths.
Two men died in separate wrecks on Sunday.
Dana Craig Martz of Singers Glen died shortly before 1:30 a.m. in a single-vehicle crash in Rockingham County.
Martz, 56, ran off the right shoulder of state Route 259, his truck overturned, catching fire, and he was ejected.
Police said he was not wearing a seat belt.
Robert Edward Lee III, 30, of Locust Grove died at the scene of a wreck shortly before 2:30 a.m. on Route 621 in Spotsylvania County.
Lee's car crossed the center line and struck a pickup truck head-on, police said.
He was not wearing a seat belt, police said.
Gerard George Webber, 51, of Palmyra died at 9:15 p.m. April 19 in a Charlottesville-area hospital of injuries he received in a car wreck that day.
Webber was eastbound on Route 618 in Fluvanna County when his car ran into the back of a sport utility vehicle that had stopped to make a turn about 10 a.m., authorities said.
Police said he was not wearing a seat belt.
Ronald Errol Irwin, 55, of Virginia Beach died in a Norfolk hospital on March 8 of injuries he received in a two-vehicle crash in Northampton County that day.
Irwin was traveling north on U.S. 13 when his minivan crossed the median and struck a car carrier head-on, police said, adding that he was wearing a seat belt.
The fatalities brought the state's highway death toll this year to 270, compared with 301 at the same time last year.

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