A man who was dragged almost four miles by a vehicle after a street racing accident Saturday in James City County has died.
Police have identified the man as 30-year-old LeTroy Prince Wallace of James City County. He was pronounced dead at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday. On Monday, police said he was paralyzed from the neck down.
Wallace was taken to MCV Hospital in Richmond after the accident, where he was treated for serious injuries. No charges have yet been filed.
The accident happened Saturday afternoon, when two vehicles were street racing near Anderson’s Corner in Toano. The vehicle being driven by Wallace, which was a 1997 Volkswagen sedan, hydroplaned and spun out of control, where it smashed into a tree near James City Recycling, ejecting him into the roadway. Wallace was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident, said Maj. Stephen Rubino of the James City County Police Department.
The other vehicle in the race, a 1995 Honda, struck Wallace and then dragged him almost four miles. That car was stopped in New Kent County after another driver alerted its driver, a 22-year-old Providence Forge man, to the presence of a body beneath his vehicle.
Wallace had two 8-year-old children in the vehicle with him. One was his son, while the other, a girl, is not related to him. The 8-year-olds were treated at the hospital and later released, Rubino said.
Charges have not yet been filed, though police are in talks with the Williamsburg-James City County Commonwealth Attorney’s office on how to proceed with the matter.
