Automobile accident in NN kills one

A 35-year-old woman dies after the SUV she was traveling in failed to yield to oncoming traffic, struck a taxi and overturned, a police news release said.

Jeanette Watford of Newport News was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene, police said.

Witnesses told police that about 4:30 p.m. the red Lincoln Navigator was traveling south on Madison Avenue at 36th Street and struck a Porter Taxi Cab that was traveling east on 36th Street.  The SUV flipped several times.

The SUV’s driver, a 34-year-old Newport News man, initially fled the crash scene on foot but then returned.  The man, who police did not identify, was the woman’s boyfriend.  He was being treated at a local hospital for hand injury.  Charges are pending against him, and his name was being withheld until the completion of the booking process, the Newport News police news release said.

The taxi driver, Rashard Rassaw, 31, of Newport News was taken to a hospital for injuries to his head and neck.  His injuries were not considered life-threatening.

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