(VA) Safety Service Patrol professional dead after hit-and-run on I-64 in Newport News
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — A Safety Service Patrol professional died after a hit-and-run crash on Interstate 64 near the Jefferson Avenue overpass in Newport News Saturday morning, according to the Virginia State Police.
At around 3:12 a.m. on Sept. 19, the agency responded to a reported sleeping motorist on westbound I-64 at the Jefferson Avenue overpass.
The preliminary investigation determined that a Kia Sorento driven by Wanagi Gordon, 44, of Newport News, hit a responding VSP vehicle in the rear. The trooper was outside the vehicle at the time and wasn’t injured.
Gordon was charged with reckless driving and driving while suspended.
A Virginia Department of Transportation-contracted Safety Service Patrol (SSP) professional at the scene, later identified as Clayton Fitchett, 60, of Hampton, was struck by a third uninvolved vehicle, an orange Dodge Charger, which fled the scene. Fitchett was fatally injured, and VSP is still searching for the suspect’s vehicle.
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