Two Louisa County residents were among nine people who died in traffic crashes during the five-day Thanksgiving holiday, Virginia State Police said yesterday. Kenneth M. Sharpe, 31, died Saturday when his sport utility vehicle veered off the road on a curve, struck an embankment and rolled six times on state Route 22, about 2 miles west of U.S. 15 in Louisa County. He wasn’t wearing a seat belt and was ejected from the vehicle, police said. He died at the scene at 10:55 p.m.

A Providence Forge man died of injuries he suffered when his motorcycle crashed in Richmond on Wednesday,

An 80-year-old woman and two young children were identified yesterday as those killed in a seven-car wreck Friday on Interstate 81 in Shenandoah County.