HENRICO, Va. (WWBT) - The Henrico Police Department says a 37-year-old man died Thursday in a crash that involved several vehicles.
“The preliminary investigation now indicates the driver of the tractor-trailer, which was hauling a concrete slab, ran through a red light as it was traveling east on Williamsburg Road. A small straight-truck hauling propane on S. Laburnum Avenue traveled into the intersection with a ‘green light’ and collided with the tractor-trailer,” Henrico Police said Friday.
Police say the tractor-trailer driver overcorrected, jackknifed and flipped over its side, hitting and killing Phillip Andrew McBride of Henrico.
McBride was spinning a sign for a business nearby.
“As this crash occurred, two secondary crashes followed involving two vehicles,” police said. “A t