Failure to yield and failure to use headlights after dark caused a two-car crash on U.S. 460 in Thomas Terrace on Sunday that sent three adults and a child to the hospital, police said.
The crash occurred at about 5:30 p.m. when a Toyota Camry traveling eastbound on U.S. 460 struck a Honda Accord that was turning left onto Kiowah Road, near the Spring House restaurant, said Trooper J. L. Doss with the Virginia State Police.
The driver of the Honda, Patricia Leeming, of Forest, was taken to Lynchburg General Hospital with broken bones and other injuries, Doss said. She was charged with failure to yield.
The child, Leeming’s granddaughter, was ejected from the car during the crash. “It appeared that the child may not have been properly restrained,” Doss said. She was flown to the University of Virginia Medical Center and her condition is unknown.
Two people in the Toyota, which was driven by Walter Arrington of Charlotte Court House, were taken to Lynchburg General Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Doss said. “Airbags and seat belts, I think, prevented that.”
Arrington was charged with failure to use headlights after sunset.
Both drivers were charged because they each contributed to the crash, Doss said.
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