Shaded: damage area
Unit 1: 2025 Kawasaki Ninja ZX4R
Motorcycle
- Direction of travel
- West
- Maneuver
- Going Straight Ahead
- Driver, male, 25Restraint: HelmetSerious injury
Crash on Hershberger Road Northwest, Roanoke, Virginia
Friday, September 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Injury crashVirginia severity: Severe injury (A)2 vehicles
- Reporting agency
- City of Roanoke
- Document number
- 252650029
- Local case code
- 25-213014
From the VDOT crash data, record last updated October 25, 2026. No changes since first published.
Where and when
- Location
- Hershberger Road Northwest
- City, county
- Roanoke
- 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
- 40 mph
- Weather
- No Adverse Condition (Clear/Cloudy)
- Light
- Darkness - Road Lighted
- Road surface
- Dry
- Hit and run
- No
- People involved
- 2
- Injured
- 2
- Killed
- 0
Vehicles and people
Shaded: damage area
Unit 2: 2005 Dodge Caravan
Van
- Direction of travel
- West
- Maneuver
- Going Straight Ahead
- Driver, female, 68Restraint: Lap and Shoulder Belt. Airbag: Not DeployedPossible injury
What the officer recorded
- Unit 1 driver action
- Following Too Closeas 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
21 crashes recorded on Hershberger Road Northwest in Roanoke in the last 12 months, 14 with injuries.
- Oct 18, 2025, Ring Road Northwest at Ring Rd NW2 vehicles, 1 injuredInjury crash
- Oct 16, 2025, Valley View Boulevard Northwest at Valley View Blvd NW2 vehicles, 2 injuredInjury crash
- Oct 15, 2025, SB 5811 vehicle, 1 injuredInjury crash
- Oct 14, 2025, Valley View Blvd NW2 vehicles, 2 injuredInjury crash
- Oct 8, 2025, Hershberger Road Northwest1 vehicleFatal crash
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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