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NORFOLK — A truck driver who died Thursday after his tractor-trailer plunged off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel on Virginia’s Eastern Shore has been identified as a North Carolina man.

Joseph Chen, 47, of Greenville, was pulled from the water after the crash by a U.S. Navy helicopter and was “unresponsive” at that time, according to Edward Spencer, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel police chief. Chen was taken to a hospital, where he died, officials said.

The truck went off the southbound side of the bridge before 12:30 p.m. at mile marker 15, officials said. Winds at the time were gusting in excess of 40 mph, but officials said they do not think that wind was a factor in the crash.

“At this point, I don’t believe this is a wind issue,” said Spencer, citing “evidence at the scene.”

Spencer said the crash is under investigation and that an autopsy was expected to be completed Friday.

About a half-hour before the crash, the restrictions on the bridge had gone from a Level 4, meaning winds of about 60 mph with tractor-trailer travel prohibited, to a Level 1, which does allow such traffic.