State trooper injured when motorcycle hits car on shoulder

HAMPTON – A Virginia State Police trooper was injured this morning in a collision with a college student who was running late for a class and attempted to drive on the shoulder of Interstate 64.

Trooper Becky Curl, a 10-year state police veteran, was transported to Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News. There was no immediate information on her injuries, but police spokeswoman Sgt. Michelle Cotten said the injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.

Just after 9 a.m., Curl was riding her motorcycle eastbound on the right shoulder of I-64, with lights and sirens on, responding to an accident near the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel.

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