Shaded: damage area
Unit 1: 2010 Toyt Corolla
Passenger car
- Direction of travel
- North
- Maneuver
- Going Straight Ahead
- Driver, male, 40Restraint: Lap Belt Only. Airbag: Deployed - FrontSerious injury
Crash on I-81 in Smyth County, Virginia
Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Injury crashVirginia severity: Severe injury (A)2 vehicles
- Reporting agency
- Smyth County
- Document number
- 262050130
- Local case code
- DIV426053538
From the VDOT crash data, record last updated October 25, 2026. No changes since first published.
Where and when
- Location
- I-81
- City, county
- Smyth County
- 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
- 70 mph
- Weather
- No Adverse Condition (Clear/Cloudy)
- Light
- Darkness - Road Not Lighted
- Road surface
- Dry
- Hit and run
- No
- People involved
- 2
- Injured
- 1
- Killed
- 0
Vehicles and people
Shaded: damage area
Unit 2: 2023 Freightliner Cascadia
Truck - Truck Tractor (Bobtail-No Trailer)
- Direction of travel
- North
- Maneuver
- Going Straight Ahead
- Driver, male, 36Restraint: Lap and Shoulder Belt. Airbag: Not DeployedNot injured
What the officer recorded
- Unit 1 driver action
- Fail to Maintain Proper Controlas 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
- Jul 22, 2026, I-812 vehiclesProperty damage only
- Jul 22, 2026, I-811 vehicleProperty damage only
- Jul 21, 2026, I-81 Northbound2 vehiclesProperty damage only
- Jul 19, 2026, I-81 S1 vehicleProperty damage only
- Jul 19, 2026, I-81 S1 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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