A Pittsylvania County sheriff’s deputy appears to be the one at fault in a two-vehicle accident on Route 29 three miles north of the bypass in Danville on Sunday.
Virginia State Police is in charge of the investigation, so, we’ll see how this one is handled.
The accident was reported at 11:58 a.m. at the intersection of Spring Garden Road and Route 29 in Pittsylvania County.
A VSP release tells us that the sheriff’s deputy was responding to a call with its emergency lights activated. The deputy was making a left turn from Route 29 south to Spring Garden Road when the deputy’s cruiser struck a passenger vehicle.
The way the release worded things here is telling:
“(T)he deputy was unable to avoid striking a passenger vehicle.”
The passenger vehicle, the release tells us, had been obscured by a large truck that had stopped to allow the deputy to make the turn, per the report.
Read between the lines there on the report; the “emergency lights activated” and “obscured by a large truck” lines are going to be cited as exonerating factors.
There were four occupants in the passenger vehicle. Then adult driver and two juvenile passengers suffered non-life-threatening injuries. One juvenile passenger suffered serious injuries and was flown to an area hospital.
The deputy also suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
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