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Car sideswipes tractor trailer, driver ejected in Accomack County

Police say the man from Parksley, Virginia wasn't wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from his vehicle when it crashed into a tree.
Credit: VSP
The scene of a fatal crash along Route 13, south of Nelsonia Road intersection, on Thursday, March 23, 2023.

ACCOMACK COUNTY, Va. — A Parksley man died Thursday evening in Accomack County after the car he was driving sideswiped a tractor trailer and crashed into a roadside tree.

Virginia State Police say Ricky Ricardo Jones, 63, was driving south on Route 13 around 7 p.m. when he lost control of his vehicle and struck a 2014 Freightliner traveling beside him. 

The Crown Victoria Jones was driving ran off the road and struck a tree head on. Police say he wasn't wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from the vehicle.

Jones died at the scene of the crash, just south of the Nelsonia Road intersection.

The driver of the tractor trailer was unharmed.

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