A Smithfield truck driver was killed yesterday when his vehicle slammed into the rear of another tractor-trailer on Interstate 295 in eastern Henrico County and burst into flames. Northbound I-295 was closed for several hours.
The trucker, Taswell D. Pierce, 60, was a driver for Burgess Truck Co. in Sedley, near Smithfield, state police spokesman Sgt. Kevin A. Barrick said last night.
Pierce was hauling a load of 2-by-4 lumber on a flatbed trailer when he ran into the rear of the other tractor-trailer as it pulled onto the highway about 4:15 a.m.
