Around 10pm on Saturday, 25^th of November, the Zion Crossroads Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched for overturned vehicle with unknown injuries or entrapment at the 3300 block of Columbia Road.

Units arrived on scene and found 4 teenage passengers that were out walking around, all unharmed. The driver was not found at the scene, but was later found by law enforcement and transported to UVA Medical Center in fair condition.

Speed was initially thought to be the cause of the accident, but is still under investigation by State Police. Fire units cleared the scene after securing all hazards around midnight.

Early morning on Friday, the 3^rd of November, Zion Crossroads was alerted to an auto accident with a single car into the woods and no report of injury or entrapment. Wagon 7 arrived on scene to find the driver of a small red car walking around and his car several hundred feet off the Interstate onramp into the woods. The car had struck a tree, but luckily the driver was not seriously injured. It is unclear how the driver lost control, and State Police are still investigating the accident.

Shortly before 1 in the morning, ZCVFD was dispatched to the 143 mile marker on Interstate 64 for a report of a tractor trailer overturned with unknown injuries. ZCVFD arrived to find a flatbed tractor trailer overturned in the left lane with it’s full load of lumber strewn across both travel lanes of the Interstate.

The driver of the tractor trailer was out walking around the scene and was luckily uninjured in the accident. Firefighters soon discovered large amounts of diesel fuel leaking from the truck and spilling into the median. The scene was upgraded to a Hazmat response and crews quickly tried to contain the recently topped off tanks. Environmental Contractors were called in to clean the spill, which was estimated more than 200 gallons of fuel was spilled into the median.

It took crews more than 7 hours to re-open the Interstate after the fuel spill was cleaned and the load of lumber was cleared. State Police are still investigating the cause of the accident.

On a cool Friday evening around 9:15, ZCVFD was toned out for a vehicle involved in a rollover with an initial report of no injuries. Lieutenant 7 arrived on scene at the 4800 block of Campbell Road (near the intersection of Zion Road) and found one vehicle on its side.

Two patients on scene extricated themselves from the unstable vehicle and at first denied any injuries, but then requested transport to the hospital. Another fire agency arrived to assist with traffic control and clean-up as Trevilians Fire Rescue 6 packaged the two patients and transported them to UVA Medical Center for non-life threatening injuries. State Police are still investigating as to what made the driver lose control and cause the vehicle to flip landing dangerously on its side.