A man died this morning after crashing head-on into a truck in an active work zone in Springfield, Virginia, early Sunday morning, according to Virginia State Police.
The crash happened at 2:15 a.m. on Interstate 395 near Route 236. The crash investigation shut down southbound traffic on the interstate for over seven hours.
Police said in a release the man was driving a Ford pickup truck and entered a work zone on a closed land when it crashed head-on into a Mack truck that was part of the work crew.
The driver of the Mack truck, a 53-year-old man from Mebane, North Carolina, was uninjured. The driver of the Ford died at the scene of the crash.
Southbound 395 is now open but the investigation is ongoing.
