ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - Authorities in North Carolina say a Virginia woman has died of injuries suffered in a crash on Interstate 77.
The Roanoke News reports the North Carolina State Highway Patrol says 61-year-old Jennifer Stender Burton of Roanoke died after being injured in a tractor-trailer crash Oct. 27 on I-77 near mile marker 81. The patrol says the left lane was closed for construction.
According to the patrol, a tractor-trailer failed to slow sufficiently and struck the back of a vehicle in which Burton was a passenger. The vehicle she was in was then pushed into a tractor-trailer ahead of it.
Burton was taken to the hospital, and investigators were notified on Nov. 2 that she died of her injuries.
Officials say charges are pending in the accident.
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Information from: The Roanoke Times, http://www.roanoke.com
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