©2009 NCC-29 WVIR-TV News Charlottesville : Screen grab courtesty of NBC-29.

Crossroads-North Garden
Albemarle County, Virginia

Updated 10.23.09 2:30 PM
NBC-29 has posted more information and video from Thursday night’s accident here on their website. Click here.

Earlier post from Thursday night
We have very few details tonight, but have learned that an auto accident on Route U.S. 29 North at Plank Road (Crossroads) in Albemarle County has left one person dead according to news and witness accounts. The roadway was closed for about an hour and a half while authorities worked the accident. NCL received phone calls and text messages from people stuck in the traffic snarl as the accident was happening.

CBS-19 in Charlottesville reports, click here.

The general area of the fatal accident just inside the Nelson County, Virginia Line on US 29 South of the Albermarle County Line. Map courtesy of www.google.com

U.S. 29 Southbound
Near the Albermarle-Nelson County, Virginia Line

Updated 12:35PM EST
NCL Web Edition has confirmed a multiple a two person fatality auto accident is currently being worked on Route U.S. 29 Southbound just inside Nelson County, Virginia south of the Albermarle County Line. “As I understand it, this was a car that flipped over down an embankment and there are two fatalities. Another victim is being flown out by Pegasus,” Nelson County Sheriff, David Brooks told NCL just before noon Sunday. Brooks says information is very fluid right now and hard facts are few at the moment. The sheriff went on to say he believes the car has out of state tags in it and is not local. His officers in addition to Virginia State Police, (VSP) and other area agencies are on the scene at this hour.

©2009 NCL Web Edition : The scene on U.S. 29 near the Nelson/Albemarle line.

A medical examiner has been called to the scene by VSP which confirms preliminary information that it is a fatal accident.

Route 56 East in Wingina : Map courtesty of www.google.com

Wingina
Nelson County, Virginia
Authorities are investigating a weekend fatality that happened just before midnight Saturday in Wingina. That’s a few miles east of Lovingston and Shipman in Eastern Nelson County, Virginia. “The car apparently veered off of the road and hit a tree, then burst into flames,” Sheriff David Brooks tells NCL. A body was found inside the car after the blaze was extinguished. The sheriff says the body was sent to Richmond for an autopsy and positive identification before the name is released to the public.

The exact cause of the accident is not known at this time.