State police are investigating a Monday morning crash on Interstate 95 in Triangle that left a 48-year-old woman dead and a Leesburg man seriously injured.
The two-vehicle wreck happened about 3:30 a.m. in the northbound lanes near the 151 mile marker at Joplin Road.
A 1986 GMC pickup was traveling northbound on I-95 when the driver ran off the road left, struck the guardrail, overcorrected and then struck a 2023 Kia Telluride, state police said in a news release. The Telluride was also traveling north. The GMC pickup then rolled over twice.
A passenger in the pickup, Nora L. Butler, 48, was ejected and died at the scene. She was not wearing a seatbelt, the release said.
The driver of the pickup, Kenneth L. Combo, Jr., 59, of Leesburg, was seriously injured. Charges are pending against Combo for failing to maintain control of the vehicle, according to the release.
The driver of the Telluride, Johnnie Robinson, 73, of Savannah, Ga., was not injured.
All northbound lanes were closed for hours, with traffic then getting by on the shoulder and in the 95 Express Lanes.
The accident was moved to the shoulder about 6:30 a.m. and all through lanes reopened, with backups extending past Garrisonville Road.
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