UPDATE: All lanes have reopened in the Downtown Tunnel after a fatal tractor trailer crash claimed the life of a 49-year-old man on Friday.
The victim has been identified as Jeffery Dean Slape of the 2200 block of Ferndale Road in Chesapeake. He was driving the 2001 Freightliner northbound on I-464 when he took the ramp to westbound I-264 and lost control in the curve.
The tractor trailer hit the jersey wall and overturned landing on the ramp from eastbound I-264 to Southbound I-464 causing the cab to overturn on top of the jersey wall.
Slape died on impact.
Norfolk, Va. – Virginia State Police were on the scene of a fatal tractor trailer accident on the I-464 north ramp to the Downtown Tunnel headed towards Portsmouth.
This happened at approximately 1:50 p.m., officials say. The tractor trailer overturned on top of the jersey wall, causing the I-264 eastbound ramp to I-464 southbound to be shut down as well.
VSP confirm that the driver of the tractor trailer was killed in the crash.
No other details have been released.
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