VSP: 21-year-old dead after crash involving excavator in Newport News

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — A 21-year-old man has died after a vehicle crash in Newport News overnight.

According to officials, just before midnight on Sunday, Virginia State Police were dispatched to the eastbound lanes of I-64, just west of Oyster Point Road, for reports of a single-vehicle crash involving an excavator.

A preliminary investigation of the scene found that the 21-year-old driver of a 2010 Chrysler Sebring, later identified as Rishard Bernard Brummell Harvey, was traveling east when he, for unknown reasons at this time, ran off the roadway. Harvey then struck an attenuator and then continued on into the construction area, where the vehicle then struck a parked excavator, troopers said…

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