Good Karma: Florida Truck Driver Wins Pick 3 Lottery Ticket On Drive Through Virginia

A Florida trucker returned to Virginia to claim the lottery prize he'd won on a recent trip.

Lamar Howard, of Orlando, FL, was passing through Virginia when he stopped and bought three Pick 3 tickets at the Love’s Travel Stop at 5021 Lee Highway outside Warrenton, lottery officials said.

While he was there, he helped another trucker who was having a difficult time. That’s not unusual, since Howard says he enjoys volunteering and helping other people.

So maybe it was karma when Howard won $700 in that night’s Pick 3 drawing. The winning number combination in the April 29 drawing was 8-4-5.

When he returned to Virginia and redeemed his winning tickets, he asked for his win to be celebrated on the Lottery’s website, to which the Lottery was happy to oblige.

Pick 3 drawings are held daily at 1:59 p.m. and 11 p.m. The top prize for a $1 play is $500. The chances of matching all four numbers in exact order are 1 in 1,000.