Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Police probe crash that killed Williamsburg man

The Virginia State Police are investigating a crash that killed a Williamsburg man Monday.

Authorities said Kevin Michael Bryant died at the scene. He was wearing a seatbelt.

Bryant was 39 years old.

It happened at 6:42 p.m. on Interstate 64 near mile marker 205 in New Kent.

Bryant was driving a 2008 Chevrolet Impala east in the left lane “when a tree from the median fell and struck the vehicle,” police said.

“Well from what I understand, it was rainy that day,” said State Police spokeswoman Shelby Crouch. “It wasn’t hit by anything, the car didn’t hit the tree, it just fell.”

Authorities had to notify Bryant’s next of kin so the news alert released earlier in the week did not have information on his identity.

John Mangalonzo
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John Mangalonzo (john@localdailymedia.com) is the managing editor of Local Voice Media’s Virginia papers – WYDaily (Williamsburg), Southside Daily (Virginia Beach) and HNNDaily (Hampton-Newport News). Before coming to Local Voice, John was the senior content editor of The Bellingham Herald, a McClatchy newspaper in Washington state. Previously, he served as city editor/content strategist for USA Today Network newsrooms in St. George and Cedar City, Utah. John started his professional journalism career shortly after graduating from Lyceum of The Philippines University in 1990. As a rookie reporter for a national newspaper in Manila that year, John was assigned to cover four of the most dangerous cities in Metro Manila. Later that year, John was transferred to cover the Philippine National Police and Armed Forces of the Philippines. He spent the latter part of 1990 to early 1992 embedded with troopers in the southern Philippines as they fought with communist rebels and Muslim extremists. His U.S. journalism career includes reporting and editing stints for newspapers and other media outlets in New York City, California, Texas, Iowa, Utah, Colorado and Washington state.

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