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Interstate 77 (I-77) in the US state of Virginia is a 67-mile (108 km) north–south Interstate Highway serving Hillsville, Wytheville, and Bland.Running parallel to US Route 52 (US 52), I-77 passes through the Big Walker Mountain Tunnel and East River Mountain Tunnel, the latter on the West Virginia state line and one of only two land vehicular tunnels to cross a state line.
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Those lanes have been mostly closed since 3:30 a.m. due to a truck crash that spilled paint. Sgt. Richard Kulina said the trailer's load, which includes a lot of five-gallon buckets of paint, is ...
The Big Walker Mountain Tunnel is a vehicular tunnel in the Appalachian Mountains of Southwest Virginia that carries Interstate 77 through and under Big Walker Mountain.It is located a few miles south of the town of Bland in Bland County and a segment of the Appalachian Trail, and about 20 miles (32 km) south of its longer cousin, the East River Mountain Tunnel.
Single-vehicle crash while pursuing a suspect. [207] Officer Jeffrey Lee Bull: Lebanon, Maine Police Department: May 9, 1987: Vehicle collision while helping another agency with a pursuit. The occupants were juveniles and were incarcerated until their 21st birthday. The driver died on May 9, 2015 in a motorcycle accident. [208] Special Officer ...
Wytheville (/ ˈ w ɪ θ v ɪ l / WITH-vil) is a town in, and the county seat of, Wythe County, Virginia, United States. It is named after George Wythe, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and mentor to Thomas Jefferson. Wytheville's population was 8,264 at the 2020 census. [6]
The Wythe County Sheriff's Office (WCSO) is the primary law enforcement agency in Wythe County, Virginia. The sheriff preceding Charles Foster was Keith Dunagan, who had served for nearly 40 years before retiring. [18] Since the establishment of the Wythe County Sheriff's Office, 1 deputy has died in the line of duty, in 1994. [19]
For eight miles (13 km), I-77 and I-81 overlap near Wytheville. This is a wrong-way concurrency, where two roads run concurrent with each other but are designated in opposite directions. For its entire length in Virginia, I-77 is either parallel to or concurrent with US 52. It will have a concurrency with I-74 throughout the state.