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Motorcycle passenger from Waynesboro succumbs to injuries from Route 29 at I-64 crash

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CHARLOTTESVILLE (WINA) – Albemarle Police say a Waynesboro woman who was a passenger on a motorcycle involved in a crash Tuesday morning at the Route 29/I-64 interchange has died from her injuries. Not including crashes investigated by State Police, 44-year old Holly Marie Minter is the 6th fatality this year in crashes investigated by Albemarle Police.

While the crash remains under investigation, police say a vehicle traveling south on 29  around 9:30 Tuesday morning collided with the motorcycle from the westbound I-64 off-ramp. Minter and the motorcycle driver were transported to UVa where Minter died Tuesday night.

No word on the condition of the driver.

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