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Driver charged in tractor-trailer crash that closes I-95 in Richmond

Harry November 7, 2024

RICHMOND, Va. — Interstate 95 South in Richmond has reopened after a tractor-trailer carrying industrial-size paper rolls crashed Thursday morning at mile marker 75.3, closing all lanes near Broad Street.

It is near the split of I-95 and I-64, and the affected area extends from Belvidere Avenue to the Bryan Park intersection.

Tractor-trailer crash on I-95 in Richmond

“At approximately 2:30 a.m., troopers arrived on scene and found the tractor trailer on its side. The driver, Savanna Purdue, 33, of North Carolina, was traveling southbound in the left lane when the incident occurred. Purdue was returning to North Carolina,” a Virginia State Police spokesman said. “The load he was carrying shifted when he was about to do so, causing the tractor trailer to overturn,” he said. “He is accused of careless driving and improper passing.”