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Northumberland County: One dead in high-speed ATV crash

Chris Graham
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Virginia State Police responded to a single-vehicle crash involving a 2002 Bombardier 650 Baja ATV in Northumberland County on Tuesday.

The ATV was traveling eastbound on Folly Road at 11:07 a.m. at a high rate of speed when it struck a pothole in the roadway and lost control causing it to run off the road to the left, hit an embankment, and a tree.

The driver, Eric Jermaine Ball, 46, of Richmond County, was pronounced dead at the scene. He was not wearing a helmet.

This crash remains under investigation.

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Chris Graham

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