State records first pedestrian death of 2009

By Staff Reports

Published: January 7, 2009

A man struck and killed in Lunenburg County on Tuesday was the first pedestrian death reported on state roadways this year.

State police said Ronald Elvin White, 25, of Chase City, was lying on state Route 734, eight-tenths of a mile west of state Route 635, when he was run over by a sedan at 9 p.m. White died at the scene shortly afterward.

Also, a 21-year-old man died today as a result of a single-vehicle crash in Southampton County on Tuesday.

Kyle Sinclair Burks, 21, of Capron, was driving a car west on state Route 671, a quarter mile west of state Route 680, at 6:35 p.m. when the vehicle ran off the road to the right, struck a ditch and overturned several times, ejecting the driver and a passenger, police said.

Burks was transported to the Medical College of Virginia, where he died. He was not wearing a seat belt, police said.

The fatalities brought the state's highway death toll this year to 11, compared with 10 at the same time last year.