Print IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News Radio Credit: U.S. Coast Guard HH-60J Jayhawk helicopter passes over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel while on patrol April 5, 2003 in Portsmouth, Virginia. Patrols like this one can last nearly six hours and cover over 300 miles. The helicopter and its crew, fly a loosely planned patrol circuit as precaution against being predictable. The waters and bridge tunnels of Chesapeake Bay are of strategic importance because of the amount of shipping traffic that enters the bay for cargo terminals in the area. (Photo by Liza Mizelle/Getty Images)
The Coast Guard and local officials called off a daylong search Tuesday night for a man in the water near Virginia Beach following a tractor-trailer accident.
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Wife of box truck driver that crashed into water off CBBT talks to News 3
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - 47-year-old Erik Mezick was a wonderful husband, father and friend.
Mezick left his home in Fruitland, Maryland on Monday around 10 p.m., according to his wife of 25 years, Megan.
He hopped in his Cloverland Greenspring Dairy box truck, ready to deliver dairy products to Cape Charles and Virginia Beach. It was a 130 mile trip, a job he had only had since March.
On his way back north, the family s world was turned upside down in seconds. Mezick driving northbound around 8:20 a.m., Tuesday, went over the guard rail on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, plunging into the bay near Mile Marker 14. The U.S. Coast Guard said witness told them Mezick starting drifting westward after climbing or falling out of the cab, into the frigid 45 degree bay.