VERONA, Va. –  A VDOT contractor is dead following a crash on Interstate 81.

State Police say the wreck took place just before five this morning at mile marker 233 in Augusta County.

A crash truck, contracted by VDOT, was stationary in the left northbound lanes as a crew was setting up cones to establish the work zone. A tractor-trailer rear-ended the crash truck causing it to run into the median and overturn. The tractor-trailer also ran off the left side of the interstate and came to rest in the median.

The driver of the crash truck, 32-year old Shawn Dick of Paw Paw, West Virginia died at the scene.

The driver of the tractor-trailer, a 23-year-old male from Baltimore, Md., was taken to Augusta Health for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.

Charges are pending and the crash remains under investigation.