A Bristol, Tennessee, man died Feb. 7 after being struck by a car on Lee Highway at 5:40 p.m.
Kenneth Tester, who was 54, died at the scene after the 1990 Ford Ranger pickup he was driving ran out of gas while traveling south on U.S. Highway 11.
Virginia State Police said the pickup was parked off the right edge of the road with a portion still in the travel lane and with hazard lights flashing.
According to police, Tester had returned to the truck and was standing beside it when a Saturn Vue, also traveling south, struck the driver and the pickup.
Tester, police said, wasn’t wearing reflective clothing.
The driver of the Saturn, a 33-year-old Bristol, Virginia, man wasn’t injured.
Charges are pending consultation with the commonwealth’s attorney, police said.
Earlier in the day, Virginia State Police responded to a fatal crash in Smyth County.
At 9:06 a.m., police were called to the scene of a wreck off Slab Town Road. A pickup traveling west near state Route 601, ran off the right side of the road, overcorrected and ran off the left side of the road. The truck, a 2013 F150, went down an embankment and overturned into a creek.
The driver, 51-year-old Walter L. Ashby of Sugar Grove, did not survive. Police report that he was wearing a seat belt.
