NELSON COUNTY, Va – Virginia State Police are investigating a fatal single vehicle crash that happened earlier this week in Nelson County.

Spokesperson Shelby Crouch reported that the accident just before five o’clock Tuesday afternoon on Route 29 just south of Route 6.

Crouch stated that a 2006 Buick Lucerne was traveling south on Route 29 when it ran off the left side of the road and into the median where it hit a ditch, overturned several times, before coming to rest in the northbound lanes.

The driver, 35-year-old Christopher Murphy of Massie Mill, died at the scene. Crouch said he was not wearing a seatbelt.