RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia State Police say three people died Thursday in weather-related traffic crashes.

Police said 26-year-old Amy Pippin of Smithfield tried to pass a vehicle on Route 258 in Isle of Wight County and hit a tractor-trailer head-on, killing her and seriously injuring her 6-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son.

In Nelson County, 66-year-old Alger Fleming of Amherst died when he was hit by a tractor trailer on Route 56 in Nelson County when he got out of his pickup truck after hitting a tree that had fallen across the road.

Police said 30-year-old Yesenia Rivera of Waltham, Mass., was killed and three others were injured when the driver of the car they were riding in lost control and flipped the car along Route 688 in Northhampton County.

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