By REED WILLIAMS
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Alcohol may have played a role in a fatal car crash yesterday on Interstate 95 in Chesterfield County, Virginia State Police said.
A woman was killed after a northbound pickup truck she was driving wrecked on I-95 just south of state Route 288 about 2:20 p.m., said state police Sgt. Tom Cunningham.
The pickup ran off the right side of the interstate into a ditch and then slammed into a barrier, Cunningham said. Police were withholding the victim's name until relatives could be notified.
Also yesterday, a woman was found dead in Richmond after a wreck on Malvern Avenue.
The woman lost control of the sedan she was driving north on Malvern, just south of Monument Avenue, about 2 p.m. and hit at least two poles, Richmond police said.
Authorities believe the victim was in her 70s. Police had not released her name.
State police also reported a number of other fatalities on state highways:
Three people were killed in a wreck on Interstate 77 in Carroll County yesterday about 11:30 a.m. Police said a southbound pickup truck lost control and crossed into northbound traffic, striking a sport utility vehicle. Police said three occupants of the SUV were killed instantly: Coleen Huffman Dollyhigh, 73, of Mount Airy, N.C.; Jorge Alberto Guerra, 45, of Greensboro, N.C.; and Isa Eidson Dollyhigh, also 45 of Greensboro.
Damian Devan Foreman, 25, of Norfolk was killed yesterday about 2:50 a.m. in a single-car crash on Blackwater Road in Virginia Beach.
John David Lindsay, 26, of Ashburn was driving a car north on Sudley Road in Prince William County yesterday about 5:30 a.m. when it crossed the centerline and hit an oncoming vehicle, killing Lindsay, police said.
A 19-year-old Mineral man was killed Friday in a wreck on state Route 640 in Louisa County.
Matthew Ryan Farmer died after the car he was in was hit by an oncoming car that crossed the centerline, state police said.
The driver of the other car, Terry R. Gum, 37, of Lynchburg, was charged with reckless driving, police said.
She and an 11-year-old passenger, Cody Gum, were flown to University of Virginia Medical Center with injuries that were not life-threatening.
George Alfred Snead, 75, of Danville died Friday at Danville Regional Medical Center after a two-vehicle wreck on U.S. 58 in Pittsylvania County.
Also Friday, Jerry Randall Palmer, 56, of Raven was killed in a crash on state Route 67 in Russell County. Palmer was a passenger in a car that ran off the road, hit a guardrail then an embankment, and overturned, police said.
Lars Given, 20, of the United Kingdom was a passenger in a car that was rear-ended by another northbound car on Interstate 81 Friday in Wythe County, police said. Given died at Wythe County Community Hospital.
James Andrew Stewart, 34, of McLoud, Okla., died March 12 at Inova Fairfax Hospital from injuries suffered in a two-vehicle wreck Feb. 15 in Stafford County, state police said.
The fatalities brought Virginia's traffic death toll to 182 yesterday, compared with 179 on the same date last year.
Contact Reed Williams at (804) 649-6332 or rwilliams@timesdispatch.com.
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