On April 14, Virginia state police reported three deaths due to personal injuries received in car accidents on the state’s roads.

On April 12, 23-year-old Lawrenceville resident Latoya Hardy died at the scene of a Brunswick County crash. According to police, she was driving her car north on Route 603 when it ran off the right side of the road and she over corrected, causing it to go off the left side of the road into a ditch. The vehicle then overturned and ejected her. According to police, she wasn’t wearing her seatbelt.

Police also reported the death of 27-year-old Palmyra resident James Poole on April 11 at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville after a Fluvanna County crash on April 6.

According to police, Poole was driving his car east on Route 6 when it crossed the center line and struck a westbound SUV. Police said he was wearing his seatbelt.

On April 7, 62-year-old Sperryville James Johnson died at Fairfax Inova Hospital after a Rappahannock County crash on April 2. Johnson was traveling west on U.S. 211 when his car ran off the left side of the road, overturning several times, according to state police. Police say he was wearing his seatbelt.

Those three fatalities brought the total number of road deaths in Virginia in 2008 to 218, compared to 242 at the same time in 2007.