By Associated Press - Saturday, October 8, 2016

GATE CITY, Va. (AP) - Virginia police say a woman is dead after a car wreck in Scott County.

Police say the wreck occurred on Ford Branch Road near Fairview Road on Saturday when a car ran off the road, went down an embankment and came to rest in a creek.

Police say the driver, a female who has not yet been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her passenger was airlifted to a hospital in Tennessee for treatment of life-threatening injuries.



The cause of the crash is under investigation.

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