Around 12:15 p.m. on December 16, 2018, Virginia State Police was called to the scene of a fatal crash in Halifax County.
A 2007 Chevrolet Equinox traveling westbound on Route 40 approximately three miles west of Route 501 ran off the left side of the road and struck a tree.
The driver – Moses D. Childress, 43, of Brookneal, Va. – was pronounced dead at the scene. He was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash.