VSP: Driver charged after hit and run involving VDOT worker Jerzy Waclaw Czubak. Photo courtesy Middle River Regional Jail (Source: WVIR) By NBC29 Newsroom | December 16, 2020 at 10:47 PM EST - Updated December 17 at 10:27 AM
AFTON, Va. (WVIR) - Virginia State Police say a Virginia Department of Transportation Safety Services Patrol employee is receiving treatment for life-threating injuries after he was struck by a tractor trailer on Interstate-64 Wednesday afternoon.
VSP says the incident happened at the 98 mile marker of I-64 just after 2 p.m. Wednesday, December 16. The VDOT worker was helping a disabled motorist when a tractor trailer lost control, slid onto the shoulder, hit the worker, and then hit the SSP vehicle before continuing westbound on I-64.