CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WVEC) -- Police have identified the driver killed in a Friday afternoon car crash in Chesapeake.
Authorities believe bad weather played a role in an accident that killed 40-year-old Charles Micheal Perkins from Pasquatank County.
Officers responded to the 700 block of S. George Washington Hwy. along the canal bank regarding a call that a car ran off the road and struck a tree. Police say the vehicle was traveling southbound when the driver lost control and veered off the road.
Medics pronounced the Perkins dead at the scene.
Police have not yet released the identity of the driver. Stay with 13News Now for more updates on this story.
