Crash kills Buckingham man

Published 2:57 pm Thursday, July 7, 2016

BUCKINGHAM — A 35-year-old man died in an Independence Day single-vehicle accident on Route 638 in Buckingham County.

According to Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller, Eugene L. Kyle, of Buckingham, died at the scene of the crash, reported at 8:25 p.m.

The crash occurred several hundred feet south of Route 639, she said.

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“A 1998 Volkswagen Passat was traveling north on Route 638 when it ran off the left side of the road. The driver … overcorrected, which caused the vehicle to run off the right side of the road, overturn and strike a tree,” Geller said.

Kyle was not wearing a seatbelt and was partially ejected, she said.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.