BRUNSWICK COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) — Virginia State Police (VSP) are investigating a single-vehicle crash in Brunswick County that left a woman dead and sent her son to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
On Dec. 9 just after 6 p.m., state police responded to a crash on the 200 block of Brandy Creek Road, north of state Route 670. When officers arrived on the scene they found a 2006 Nissan Altima in an embankment.
According to VSP, the driver, 32-year-old Rakeria Jameka Smith of Lawrenceville, Virginia was traveling northbound on Brandy Creek Road, at a high rate of speed, when she went around a curve and lost control of the car. The car went down the embankment and hit several trees and a chevron post that went through the windshield.
Police say Smith was not wearing her seatbelt and died at the scene. Her 13-year-old son was also in the vehicle. He was also not wearing his seatbelt, according to State Police. He was airlifted to the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond with life-threatening injuries.
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