Two tractor-trailers caused a fiery backup in Wytheville on Monday, April 15.
According to the Virginia State Police, a two-truck collision happened at 9:50 p.m. at the interchange of northbound Interstate 81 and Interstate 77 in Wythe County.
Police said a truck driven by a 29-year-old Phoenix, Arizona, man was parked partially in the emergency lane and partially in the right northbound lane of I-81 when it was hit from behind by another northbound tractor-trailer. The impact of the crash pushed the truck driven by Ricky G. Hammond into the guardrail and then both vehicles caught fire.
Hammond suffered minor injuries and was charged with improper stopping on a highway.
The driver of the second truck, 34-year-old Khamid Eshkobilov of Brooklyn, New York, suffered serious injuries.
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