Police have identified the Hampton couple killed in a Saturday evening crash involving an Amazon delivery truck.
Curtis Carr, 77, and Teara Carr, 71, were sitting in a sedan that was stopped at a red light in the eastbound lane of East Pembroke Avenue just before 7 p.m., the Hampton Police said.
That’s when the driver of an Amazon delivery truck — heading south on North King Street — lost control. The truck went off the road, struck a fire hydrant, then slammed into the Carrs’ sedan that was still stopped at the intersection.
Hampton police spokesman Shaun Stalnaker said Monday that the delivery driver “may have been experiencing a medical emergency at the time of the collision, as well as in the moments immediately following the impact.”
The nature of the medical emergency wasn’t immediately clear.
Hampton Fire Department medics took all three people involved to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. The Carrs died at the hospital that evening, while the delivery driver’s condition has since been upgraded to non-life-threatening.
The police division is “still discussing if charges are going to be pursued” against that driver, Stalnaker said.
Peter Dujardin, 757-897-2062, pdujardin@dailypress.com
