‘Everybody loved Dylan’: Family shares kindness of man who died in crash on dangerous curve on Mount Pleasant Road

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — Cars continue to whiz by the dangerous stretch of Mount Pleasant Road where, on Sunday morning, Dylan Farrer died.

Man dead after crash on Mount Pleasant Road in Chesapeake

Around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Chesapeake Police reported that Farrer was involved in a single-vehicle crash in the 2400 block of Mount Pleasant Road, as his vehicle left the road and struck a tree. Chesapeake Police continue investigating, but have no further update at this time.

Sunday morning was John Farrer’s birthday. That’s when he got the knock on the door.

“My birthday — I can’t get it out of my head,” John Farrer said. “The cop told me. ‘Your son is deceased.’ I just can’t stop hearing it. … I can’t get it out of my head: ‘Your son is deceased.’… I knew something was wrong because I saw the chaplain, … and on my birthday —cruel.”…

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