Newport News man among 3 killed in crashes

A 33-year-old man was killed in a single-car crash in Newport News yesterday.

Robert Tinsley Fields IV of Newport News driving on J. Clyde Morris Boulevard, 200 feet west of Louise Drive, when he lost control of his vehicle while exiting the interstate and struck a pole at 9:59 a.m. Fields was wearing a seat belt and died at the scene, police said.

Virginia State Police also reported two other highway deaths, bringing Virginia's highway death toll for this year to 25, compared with 28 on the same date last year.

In Fauquier County, Bernard Shane Rose, 35, of Catlett died at the scene of a two-car crash Wednesday.

Police said Rose was a passenger in a pickup truck that ran off Old Dumfries Road, half a mile east of state Route 670, at 7:58 p.m. Police said the truck returned to the road, crossed the center line, struck a car and then ran off the road to the left before striking a bank and flipping over three times. Rose was not wearing a seat belt, police said.

A 71-year-old man was killed after a crash in Lee County on Wednesday. Hobert Cecil Coleman of Jonesville was driving a car west on U.S. 58A, 218 feet west of state Route 646, when it ran off the road to the left and crossed the median, police said. The car continued crossing the eastbound lane, ran off the road to the left through a chain link fence and struck a storage building at 11:10 p.m.

Coleman, who police said was wearing a seat belt, died Thursday morning at Lee Regional Hospital in Pennington Gap.