State police report a fourth traffic fatality due to storm

Virginia State Police today reported a fourth weather-related traffic fatality in Virginia.

Police said Christopher E. Wright, 28, of Hampton, was killed just after 2 a.m. Wednesday in a single-vehicle crash in Hampton. Wright was entering the ramp from Hampton Roads Center Parkway to westbound Interstate 64 when his car veered off the road and struck a light pole and then a tree. Wright, who was not wearing a safety belt, died at the scene.

Three other people were killed in storm-related crashes on Thursday, police said. They occurred in Nelson, Northampton and Isle of Wight counties between 4:35 a.m. and 8:30 a.m.

-- Mark Bowes