BRAMWELL, WV : One injured in chain-reaction crash on Friday, 28th October 2016

One person was injured Friday afternoon in a three-vehicle, chain-reaction crash on U.S. Route 52 near Pinnacle Rock.

The accident occurred around 1:30 p.m. when the driver of a Toyota Camry, traveling southbound on Route 52, “looked away for a second” and rear-ended a logging truck, Senior Trooper B.R. Wood, with the Princeton detachment of the West Virginia State Police, said.

Wood said there was no damage to the logging truck, but the passenger vehicle was a total loss.

“Both drivers were fine,” Wood said. “There were no injuries.”

Trooper J.C. Woods, with the State Police Welch detachment, was the first to arrive on the accident scene, Wood said.

“He was driving back from his shift in McDowell County,” Wood said. “He began working the accident and trying to control traffic.”

However, Wood said, before firefighters and EMS workers arrived on the scene to assist with traffic control, a third vehicle came around a curve and crashed while trying to avoid hitting the stopped traffic.

“The third vehicle, a small pick-up truck, was heading northbound downhill on U.S. Route 52 when she came upon the accident,” Wood said. “She swerved across the lane, barely hit the bumper of the logging truck, and put the vehicle on the bank, at which point it turned over.”

Wood said the driver, a female, had to be extricated from the vehicle by EMS officials and firefighters on scene.

The driver was transported to Bluefield Regional Medical Center, Wood said, but her injuries did not appear to be life threatening.

The Bramwell Volunteer Fire Department, Bramwell Police Department and Bluefield Rescue Squad also responded to the scene.

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One injured in chain-reaction crash