RINGGOLD, Va. – Virginia State Police say the driver of a tractor-trailer died of injuries sustained in a Monday afternoon accident off Highway 58.
Melquavis Keyarvis Turnipseed, 21, of Mantee, Mississippi, was traveling east in a 2022 Volvo tractor-trailer when it ran off the right side of the road, hit a fence and then struck a stack of wooden pallets in the parking lot of Cloverdale Lumber Co.
The driver was briefly trapped inside the cab of the 18-wheeler. He was freed from the wreckage by Ringgold Fire & Rescue and transported to Sovah-Health Danville, where he later died.
The crash happened at about 2:20 p.m. about seven-tenths of a mile east of Ringgold Depot Road in Pittsylvania County.
Investigators are still trying to determine what caused the wreck, which remains under investigation.
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