VIRGINIA Beach man killed in A PICKUP TRUCK wreck
after fleeing traffic stop
Posted: Jan 04, 2015 11:28 AM EST Updated: Jan 04, 2015
11:28 AM EST
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - A Virginia Beach man has died
after fleeing a traffic stop and wrecking his vehicle.
Virginia Beach police identified the man as 30-year-old
Travis Martin Hill.
Police say in a news release that an officer stopped a
pickup truck driven by Hill for suspicion of drunken driving around 1 a.m.
Sunday. The truck then fled at a high rate of speed.
Police say Hill lost control of the truck while trying
to make a left turn and the vehicle hit a tree.
Hill was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
The incident remains under investigation.