VA Woman Mercedes Scales ID’d As Victim In Sunday Christiansburg Fatal Single-Vehicle Crash

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, VA. (THECOUNT) — Mercedes Diane Scales, of Christiansburg, Virginia, has been identified as the victim in a fatal Sunday morning crash in Montgomery County.

Scales, 24, who resided in Falls Church, Virginia, was killed in a single-vehicle Sunday crash near Christiansburg.

According to reports, Scales was traveling as a passenger in a Nissan Rogue in the 1500 block of Ellett Road, when for unknown reasons, the vehicle crossed centerlines and exited the roadway around 6 a.m. Sunday. The vehicle then made contact with a substantial tree.

The operator of the Rogue, 24-year-old Preston Conner Jones, was transported to an area hospital with serious unknown injuries.
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Scales was pronounced dead at the scene of blunt force trauma injuries.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

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Geo quick facts: Montgomery County is a county located in the Valley and Ridge area of the U.S. state of Virginia. As population in the area increased, Montgomery County was formed in 1777 from Fincastle County, which in turn had been taken from Botetourt County. As of the 2010 census, the population was 94,392 – Wikipedia.