CHARLOTTESVILLE — Heavy fog and icy road conditions on Afton Mountain sent nearly 20 people to area hospitals when a tractor-trailer loaded with mail slid out of control on Interstate 64 early Sunday morning and was struck by a Troy-based tour bus.
“[The] tractor-trailer was traveling east on Interstate 64 when the driver lost control and the tractor-trailer overturned across the roadway,” state police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said in a news release.
“A chartered bus traveling in the eastbound lane was unable to avoid the tractor-trailer and struck it. The impact of the crash split the tractor-trailer in half. The bus ran off the right side of the highway and came to rest against the guardrail,” she wrote.
The tractor-trailer driver, James Proffitt, 44, of Suffolk, was transported to the University of Virginia Medical Center for treatment of serious, but non-life-threatening, injuries.