Shaded: damage area
Unit 1: 1998 Hond Civic
Passenger car
- Direction of travel
- South
- Maneuver
- Going Straight Ahead
- Driver, male, under 18Restraint: Lap and Shoulder Belt. Airbag: Not DeployedNot injured
Crash on Wards Rd, Lynchburg, Virginia
Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Injury crashVirginia severity: Non-visible injury (C)2 vehicles
- Reporting agency
- City of Lynchburg
- Document number
- 251545112
- Local case code
- 2025009069
From the VDOT crash data, record last updated October 25, 2026. No changes since first published.
Where and when
- Location
- Wards Rd
- City, county
- Lynchburg
- 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
- Rain
- Light
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Wet
- Hit and run
- No
- People involved
- 2
- Injured
- 1
- Killed
- 0
Vehicles and people
Shaded: damage area
Unit 2: 2022 Ford PK
Pick-up Truck
- Direction of travel
- South
- Maneuver
- Going Straight Ahead
- Driver, male, 62Restraint: Lap and Shoulder Belt. Airbag: Not DeployedPossible injury
What the officer recorded
- Unit 1 driver action
- Following Too Closeas recorded on the report
- Unit 1 driver condition
- Eyes Not on Roadas 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
57 crashes recorded on Wards Rd in Lynchburg in the last 12 months, 19 with injuries.
- Jun 13, 2025, Wards Rd2 vehicles, 1 injuredInjury crash
- Jun 12, 2025, Wards Rd3 vehicles, 2 injuredInjury crash
- Jun 9, 2025, Wards on 460 E2 vehicles, 2 injuredInjury crash
- May 31, 2025, Wards Rd2 vehicles, 2 injuredInjury crash
- May 27, 2025, Wards Rd2 vehicles, 2 injuredInjury 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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