PRINCE GEORGE, Va. (WWBT) – A wrong-way driver faces two charges after crashing into Virginia State Police vehicle on Interstate 295.
Police say Edward Junious Whitby, 71, of Newport News, was traveling south in the northbound lanes in Prince George County around 1 a.m. Sunday.
“A trooper was traveling north on I-295 near the 5-mile marker in an effort to intercept the vehicle when he encountered Whitby’s vehicle traveling toward him at a high rate of speed,” state police said.
“The trooper had his emergency equipment activated and attempted to slow before Whitby’s vehicle struck the state police vehicle head-on,” police said…