A 23-year-old South Richmond man died yesterday afternoon after his sport utility vehicle crashed into Lickinghole Creek in Goochland County.

Keishaun L. Nash, 23, of the 900 block of Derrymore Road was pronounced dead after his body was recovered from the creek about 5:30 p.m., Goochland Sheriff James L. Agnew said.

Witnesses reported hearing a loud noise near the bridge shortly before 3 p.m., the sheriff said. They found the SUV overturned and fully submerged in the creek.

Bystanders searched the water for victims but found the vehicle unoccupied. Deputies and rescue workers searched the creek bank and water by boat but were unable to locate any victims, Agnew said.

At 4:41 p.m., divers from the Henrico County Division of Fire began searching the creek, which is about 15 feet deep at the location. Nash's body was located about an hour later and was taken to the state medical examiner's office for an autopsy.

In other statewide road fatalities, a 20-year-old Midlothian man was killed Thursday when a tractor-trailer ran a stop sign and slammed into his car in Spotsylvania County, Virginia State Police report.

Joseph Darnell Buroughs Jr. was pronounced dead at the scene of the 11:20 a.m. wreck at state Route 609 and the northbound Interstate 95 exit ramp at mile marker 118, state police said.

Police said the driver of a tractor-trailer exiting the interstate ran a stop sign at the end of the ramp and broadsided Buroughs' car as he was traveling on Route 609. Charges are being considered in the crash, police said.

Also Thursday, a Clintwood man died of injuries he sustained when his vehicle ran off the left side of state Route 83 and struck a guardrail about 2 miles west of Owens Branch Road in Dickenson County. Bill Francis Foster, 49, was pronounced dead at the scene about 10 minutes after the 6:25 p.m. crash, state police said.

The fatalities brought the state's highway death toll this year to 402, compared with 492 at this time last year.