Rural Retreat woman killed in crash

A Rural Retreat woman was killed Wednesday morning in a single-vehicle wreck on Interstate 81 in Wythe County.
Police said that weather may have played a part in the 7:30 a.m. crash at the 68.2 mile marker in between the Rural Retreat and Wytheville exits.
According to Virginia State Police Sgt. M.T. Conroy, Carolyn Rose, 64, was traveling alone northbound in a 1998 Isuzu Rodeo when her SUV ran off the right side of the roadway, hit a guardrail, overturned and went down an embankment.
“Weather may have been a contributing factor,” he said, alluding to heavy rain showers on Wednesday morning.
Rose was wearing a seatbelt, he said.
—Staff report