PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — The Prince William County Police Department said a man died after his car crashed on Wednesday morning.
Police said that the wreck happened around 12:20 a.m. in the area of Graham Park Road and Woodland Drive in Triangle.
Officers said the driver, Kenneth Jacobs, 58, of Dumfries was speeding on Graham Park Road when he lost control of the car, which ran across someone’s lawn and hit a telephone pole’s guidewire before it went into a ravine. There, it hit a concrete culvert before it stopped in a creek bed.
Police said Jacobs, who wasn’t wearing a seat belt, was the only person in the car. He died at the scene of the crash.