HENRICO, Va. (WWBT) – A South Chesterfield woman died early Thursday after driving the wrong way on Interstate 295 in Henrico County and striking a tractor-trailer, Virginia State Police said.
According to police, the crash happened just before 2:30 a.m. July 9 on I-295 near the 28-mile-marker.
An investigation shows that a Hyundai was traveling south in the northbound lanes of I-295 when it hit a tractor-trailer. The impact caused the tractor-trailer to cross through the median and into the southbound lanes, where it stopped.
The driver of the Hyundai, Skylar Mackenzie Vargo, 23, of South Chesterfield, Virginia, was trapped in the car when it became engulfed in flames…