A head-on collision in rural Buckingham County, Virginia (VA), on the morning of May 15, 2017, left both drivers involved dead. The fatal crash happened on Route 15/S. James Madison Highway outside of the town of Dillwyn at around 9:45 am. State Police investigators determined that the driver of a car caused the…
According to the National Safety Council, there were approximately 40,000 people killed in car crashes last year. This is almost a 15 percent spike in the number of fatal car accidents from 2014, the biggest surge in a two-year period in more than five decades. Although there is no way to completely insulate yourself from…
A chain-reaction crash on the interstate near Concord, North Carolina (NC), left a female passenger in one of the cars dead and a pickup driver facing charges. The deadly four-vehicle collision happened shortly before noon on May 6, 2017. State Highway Patrol investigators determined that the fatal incident began when the pickup driver…
A collision between a motorcycle and an SUV in Portsmouth, Virginia (VA), left the motorcycle rider dead. The fatal crash at the intersection of High Street and Jamestown Avenue happened a few minutes before 8 am on May 5, 2017. According to police, the motorcyclist was traveling west on High Street when he…
A 46-year-old man and his 12-year-old son were killed in a tractor-trailer accident in Winchester, Va. last week. The truck driver, a 55-year-old Georgia man, has been charged with reckless driving in the fatal crash. According to details released by law enforcement, the traffic had slowed down on Interstate 81, near mile marker 307, in…