DINWIDDIE COUNTY, Va. — Early Sunday morning, a semi-driver smashed into a fire truck that was blocking the scene of an earlier interstate crash, sheering the rig’s cab from its body.
WTVR reported that crews first responded to a crash involving a semi-truck. A fire truck and sheriff’s deputy car were blocking the right lane when they noticed a tractor-trailer approaching. It then struck the fire truck, causing it to hit the deputy’s vehicle. The impact of the hit split the fire truck.
The driver of the tractor-trailer was airlifted to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The sheriff’s deputy and a firefighter were transported to a hospital in stable condition.
Police charged Lonnie Mixter, the tractor-trailer driver, with reckless driving. The second crash happened at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday on a stretch of I-85.
Update: FF and Deputy have been treated and released from hospital. Pics are what’s left of 2002 Pierce Quantum.
Posted by Dinwiddie Fire & EMS and Dinwiddie Emergency Management on Sunday, November 22, 2015