The Albemarle County Police Department’s Crash Reconstruction Team is investigating the first fatality on a public roadway within the locality.
Public safety officers were dispatched at around 10:30 a.m. morning on January 26 on a call for a two-vehicle crash on East Rio Road near Albemarle Square.
“One individual was declared deceased at the scene,” reads an information release sent out Sunday afternoon. “The deceased victim’s identity is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.”
This post will be updated as more information becomes available.
This is the second overall fatality in Albemarle County this year. The first occurred when 93-year-old Noreen C. Wilbourn was killed on January 12 in the parking lot of a shopping center in Scottsville, as reported by CBS19.
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