Patrick Wilson
The Virginian-Pilot
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VIRGINIA BEACH
State police identified the man killed in a crash on Interstate 264 at First Colonial Road in Virginia Beach this morning as Paul Norfleet Sutton Sr.
Sutton, 82, of Thalia Drive in Virginia Beach, was headed west in a Ford Escape shortly after 7 a.m. when he veered across the grassy median and hit a Ford F-250 that was headed east, said Sgt. Michelle Cotten, a state police spokeswoman.
He was taken to a hospital where he died a short time after the crash, police said. The driver of the truck, a 45-year-old Hampton man, also was taken to a hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening.
Witnesses told police that Sutton was going faster than 80 mph when he ran off the road.
The cause of the crash is under investigation. Neither driver was wearing a seatbelt, Cotten said.
The right two lanes were closed while state police reconstructed the crash and gathered evidence.
Shortly after 11 a.m., authorities were reopening the lanes.
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