RINGGOLD, Va. – Virginia State Police have identified the woman killed in Tuesday’s fiery crash in Ringgold as 61-year-old Shirley J. Scott of Milton, N.C.
Virginia State Police Trooper W.L. Ferguson said her 2004 Toyota Camry was traveling on Tom Fork Road when the driver ran a stop sign and continued onto Cane Creek Parkway, where the car struck a tractor-trailer.
The car came to rest underneath the trailer of the semi-truck. The impact caused the Camry and the trailer of the 18-wheeler to catch fire.
Scott died at the scene. The driver of the tractor-trailer was not injured.
The crash happened 12:45 p.m. on Cane Creek Parkway at Tom Fork Road.
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