Two die on Virginia highways

-- A man struck and killed in Lunenburg County on Tuesday was the first pedestrian death reported on state roadways this year.

State police said Ronald Elvin White, 25, of Chase City was lying on state Route 734, eight-tenths of a mile west of state Route 635, when he was run over by a sedan at 9 p.m. White died at the scene shortly afterward.

Also, a 21-year-old man died yesterday as a result of a single-vehicle crash in Southampton County on Tuesday.

Kyle Sinclair Burks, 21, of Capron was driving west on state Route 671, a quarter-mile west of state Route 680, at 6:35 p.m. when the vehicle ran off the road to the right. It struck a ditch and overturned several times, ejecting the driver and a passenger, police said.

Burks was transported to VCU Medical Center, where he died. He was not wearing a seat belt, police said.

The fatalities brought the state's highway death toll this year to 11, compared with 10 at the same time last year.