Police: Dumfries Man Dies in Collision With Tree

A Dumfries man died Monday after the SUV he was driving went off a road in Dale City and struck a tree, according to the Prince William County police.

Charles Anthony Norton, 69, was taken to a local hospital, where he died a short time later, the police said. Detectives from the Police Department's Crash Investigation Unit are investigating the accident.

The police responded at 10:53 a.m. Monday to the scene of the collision, in the 14200 block of Spriggs Road, near Hylton High School, a police report stated.

Norton was driving a 2001 Chevrolet Tahoe southbound on Spriggs Road when, for unknown reasons, the SUV sideswiped a 2006 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck, also traveling south, the police said. The Tahoe then veered off the road and struck a tree.

The pickup truck driver, a 45-year-old Woodbridge man, was not injured. "It is unknown at this time if speed, alcohol or drugs were a factor" in the accident, the police report said.