BECKLEY, WV (LOOTPRESS) – Three people were sent to the hospital following a head-on collision in Beckley this afternoon.
According to the Beckley Police Department (BPD), on February 15, 2024, at approximately 3:45pm, the BPD responded to a head-on motor vehicle collision in the 3200 Block of Robert C. Byrd Drive involving a passenger car and passenger truck.
Both occupants of the passenger car sustained life threatening injuries and were transported to a local hospital and then transferred to a Charleston Hospital in critical condition.
The driver of the pickup truck was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The cause of the accident remains under investigation.
An accident reconstructionist with the West Virginia State Police responded to assist in the investigation.