A 28-year-old man has been charged with driving under the influence and felony manslaughter in the deaths of two people in a weekend crash in South Richmond.

An eastbound pickup truck ran off Snead Road on Saturday at 11:19 p.m. and hit a parked car, authorities said. The impact spun the car around and hit two people standing next to it.

Police said the driver of the truck, Carmen Alejandro Garcia-Hernandez, tried to leave the scene of the crash on foot. Witnesses stopped him until police arrived. He is being held without bond, police said. Authorities did not give an address for Garcia-Hernandez.

Joseph Owens, 40, of Alberta in Brunswick County and Catherine Jones, 44, of the 2200 block of Hey Road in Richmond were taken to VCU Medical Center, where they were pronounced dead at 1:13 a.m., police said. Two other people received minor injuries from flying debris from the crash.

"The lives of two families have been shattered due to the careless and reckless behavior of drinking and driving," Richmond police Lt. Harvey Powers said in a written statement. "The Richmond Police Department has and will continue to deploy DUI patrols in our efforts to change this behavior."

Virginia State Police yesterday reported two other road fatalities, both involving motorcycles, bringing the state's death toll this year to 308, compared with 354 at the same time last year.

Gene Hughes, 62, of Knoxville, Tenn., died Friday at 4 p.m. at Bristol Regional Medical Center of injuries he received in a crash Thursday about 12:45 a.m. Hughes was traveling on Interstate 81, just north of state Route 622 in Smyth County, when he lost control of his motorcycle, which ran off the road, struck a guardrail and ejected him.

Philip J. Sigler, 55, of Hampton died Saturday at 8:30 a.m. at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News from injuries he received in a May 19 crash, police said. About 5:40 p.m. that day, Sigler was exiting Interstate 64 to northbound Magruder Boulevard when he lost control of his motorcycle. The cycle overturned and pinned him down.
Contact Juan Antonio Lizama at (804) 649-6513 or jlizama@timesdispatch.com.