Shaded: damage area
Unit 1: 2012 Ford Focus
Passenger car
- Direction of travel
- North
- Maneuver
- Going Straight Ahead
- Driver, female, 20Restraint: Lap and Shoulder Belt. Airbag: Not DeployedNot injured
Crash on Electric Road, Salem, Virginia
Friday, December 20, 2024 at 7:49 AM
Property damage onlyVirginia severity: Property damage only (O)2 vehicles
- Reporting agency
- City of Salem
- Document number
- 243585087
- Local case code
- 202405393
From the VDOT crash data, record last updated October 25, 2026. No changes since first published.
Where and when
- Location
- Electric Road
- City, county
- Salem
- Collision type
- Rear End
- Intersection type
- Not at Intersection
- First harmful event
- Motor Vehicle In Transport
- Traffic control
- Traffic Lanes Marked
- Work zone
- No
- Posted speed limit
- 35 mph
- Weather
- No Adverse Condition (Clear/Cloudy)
- Light
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
- Hit and run
- No
- People involved
- 2
- Injured
- 0
- Killed
- 0
Vehicles and people
Shaded: damage area
Unit 2: 2017 Kia Sorento
Passenger car
- Direction of travel
- North
- Maneuver
- Stopped in Traffic Lane
- Driver, female, 36Restraint: Lap and Shoulder Belt. Airbag: Not DeployedNot injured
What the officer recorded
- Unit 1 driver action
- Following Too Closeas recorded on the report
- Unit 1 violation cited
- Summons issuedas recorded on the report
A contributing factor or charge recorded by an officer is not a finding of fault or a conviction. We show the record as the state released it.
Nearby and recent
10 crashes recorded on Electric Road in Salem in the last 12 months, 9 with injuries.
- Dec 14, 2024, Electric Rd2 vehicles, 3 injuredInjury crash
- Dec 9, 2024, Electric Rd at Boulevard3 vehicles, 2 injuredInjury crash
- Jan 19, 2025, Homestead Dr1 vehicleProperty damage only
- Jan 17, 2025, Apperson Dr2 vehiclesProperty damage only
- Jan 16, 2025, Apperson Dr.1 vehicleProperty damage only
About this record
- Source
- VDOT crash data
- Updates
- Changes the state makes to this record are applied here when the source publishes them
- First published here
- October 25, 2026
- Last updated
- October 25, 2026, no changes recorded
- What is left out
- Names, addresses, plates, and license and insurance numbers are not in the public data and never appear here
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