Contributed by Mike Feazel
The Lake Monticello Fire Department and Rescue Squad responded to a serious accident on at South Boston Road and Broken Island Road Wednesday (June 5), extinguishing a vehicle fire that threatened a house and transporting the injured driver.
The vehicle was ablaze and lying on its roof about ten feet from a wooden porch and rear of the residence when first responders arrived. It had apparently left the roadway, taken down two trees and the top of a third, and gone through a wooden fence. The trees were entangled with the vehicle, obstructing access to it.
The driver was lying on the ground next to the vehicle with facial lacerations, and shoulder and leg injuries, and was transported to the University of Virginia Medical Center by the rescue squad. The Fluvanna County Sheriff’s Department and Virginia State Police did the investigation. South Boston Road was closed for an extended period because of the accident.
