17 Bypass bad accident

The N.C. Highway Patrol said a Virginia man was killed in a two-vehicle collision in the southbound lanes of the U.S. Highway 17 Bypass near Elizabeth City, Tuesday. The accident involved a 2017 Ford Transit van (shown at left) and a commercial road grader owned by a private construction firm. The tractor trailer shown in the photo was not involved in the cause of the accident.

A Virginia man was killed after the vehicle he was driving collided with a commercial road grader on U.S. Highway 17 Bypass near Elizabeth City, Tuesday.

The accident occurred just before 11 a.m. in the southbound lanes of the bypass and within site from the nearby Halstead Boulevard Extended overpass. Authorities closed the southbound lanes to traffic till the scene had been cleared.