Police: Collision on Route 15 Sends Five People to Hospital

Five people, including three childrten, were injured Saturday afternoon in a collision on Route 15 north of Lucketts when the driver of a pickup truck swerved to avoid a deer in the road, police said.

Personnel from the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office and the Virginia State Police responded at 12:33 p.m. to the site of the accident, at Route 15 and Wilt Store Road, the sheriff’s office said.

A Frederick, Md., man was driving north on Route 15 in a 2003 Chevy pickup truck that veered into the opposite lane when a deer reportedly crossed into the road on the east shoulder, the sheriff’s office said. The pickup went left to avoid the deer and sideswiped a southbound Chevy Astro Van driven by a man from Washington, D.C., and continued into a Dodge Caravan driven by a man from Damascus, Md.

The Dodge Caravan had been transporting six seat-belted juveniles, three of whom were transported to Inova Loudoun Hospital’s Cornwall campus in Leesburg for non-life-threatening injuries. The drivers of the Astro Van and Caravan were taken to the same hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, the sheriff’s office said.

The driver of the Chevy pickup was charged with general reckless driving, said the sheriff’s office, which did not identify the driver. Alcohol, drugs, fatigue and speed were not factors in the accident, the sheriff’s office added.