A truck driver died after his rig crashed into a logging truck that had spilled its load, sending the trucker's vehicle into Lake Gaston, Virginia State Police said Tuesday.
Despite the efforts of a state police dive team, Charles Aubrey Wright, 60, was found dead after the crash Monday. The Mecklenburg County resident was not wearing his safety belt, police said.
The crash on Route 626 in Brunswick County occurred when a tractor-trailer driven by Raudell Lee Stainback of Henderson, N.C., took a curve at a high speed and crossed the center of the road. When he tried to pull back into his lane, his log-laden trailer overturned, police said.
The rear of Stainback's trailer struck Wright's truck, which had been traveling in the opposite direction. Wright's truck then ran into the lake.
Stainback, 51, has been charged with reckless driving, police said. He received minor injuries but was not hospitalized.
