News Release

Fatality near milepost 290 on the Blue Ridge Parkway

Date: April 8, 2022
Contact: BLRI Public Affairs

(Blowing Rock, NC) - On Thursday, April 7, 2022, at approximately 5:30 a.m., Blue Ridge Parkway dispatchers received a report of a motor vehicle collision near milepost 290 on the Blue Ridge Parkway.  
 
Rangers and local rescue crews arrived on scene to find a single occupant, Jonathan Gabriel Reyes Medrano, age 22, of Mexico, deceased as a result of the collision.  
 
It appears Medrano was driving southbound on the Blue Ridge Parkway when he failed to negotiate a left-hand curve causing the vehicle to leave the roadway and collide with a tree. 
 
No additional details are available at this time.