By Associated Press - Thursday, December 8, 2016

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - Virginia State Police say a pickup truck flipped over a jersey and off a bridge in Norfolk, injuring the driver.

Police spokeswoman Sgt. Michelle Anaya said in an email that the pickup truck was traveling on Interstate 264 on Thursday morning when it crashed into the jersey wall on the Berkley Bridge, which crosses the Elizabeth River. The truck then flipped over the wall and fell about 75 feet on rocks.

Rescue crews had to free the driver from the vehicle.

Anaya says the driver, 20-year-old Benjamin Siemiatkaska of Virginia Beach, was taken to a hospital with injuries that are not thought to be life-threatening. State police charged him with reckless driving and driving too fast for road conditions.

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This story has been corrected to show the vehicle involved is a pickup truck, not an SUV, and that it flipped over a jersey wall instead of crashing through a guardrail.

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