There have been 22 Virginia traffic deaths, including 5 motorcyclists, since last Friday

The shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline caused long lines at gas stations across the region on Tuesday. The artery which supplies oil to many states in the eastern U.S. purportedly shut down on Friday because of a ransomware cyberattack by the Russian group Darkside. 

On Sunday, the Culpeper Police Department says a man was "yelling suicidal statements" as he climbed the 250-foot-tall Verizon cell phone tower off Old Brandy Road. Officers were able to de-escalate the situation and the man was safely returned to the ground and transported to the hospital for a mental health evaluation and treatment of self-inflicted injuries.

On Monday afternoon, search and rescue teams in the Shenandoah National Park discovered the body of a male believed to be Ty Sauer, a teenager from New Jersey who had been missing for several days. 

A body found Monday in Shenandoah National Park is believed to be a New Jersey teenager missing since Thursday night

The search continues on Monday for Ty Sauer, the New Jersey teenager who has been missing in the Shenandoah National Park since Thursday night. Sauer, 18, was last seen at mile marker 35 on Skyline Drive, according to National Park Service officials. 

Sunday, 1:45 p.m. update:

Amissville first responders raced to the scene of this serious two-vehicle accident that occurred shortly after 11 a.m. this morning on Route 211 East, just inside the Rappahannock County line.

Another fatal traffic accident — the second in as many days — in our local area.

Todd B. McKinney, 59, of Woodville died in a single-vehicle crash Sunday afternoon not far from his home.

The Virginia Department of Transportation is reporting icy patches on most of Rappahannock County’s roadways this morning, but primary and secondary roads are in good condition overall as of 6:00 a.m. Motorists should expect snow and ice in village areas and across bridges.

No injuries were reported Wednesday afternoon after a Greg Williams Tree Service truck traveling west on Lee Highway collided with a Ford 350 pickup truck pulling out of the median crossover between Tiger Valley Road and Mount Salem Avenue near Washington. The impact of the collision caused …

Shenandoah National Park rangers this past weekend responded to “several accidents with injuries” and conducted a successful late-night search for an overdue group of hikers.

The tragic death last week of Raymond L. Gooch, an 82-year-old former Washington town councilman who was involved in a serious two-vehicle crash with a Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office deputy who was responding to an emergency call last month.

Highway 211 in the Rappahannock County portion of Shenandoah National Park was shut down in both directions shortly after 1 p.m. this afternoon after a motorcycle and vehicle apparently collided on a sharp curve several hundred yards above the Pass Mountain trailhead.

Virginia State Police Trooper S.K. Burke-Smith is investigating a two-vehicle fatal crash in Culpeper County that claimed the life of a Jeffersonton man.

Park warns hikes can be charged with disorderly conduct for poor decisions

Raymond L. Gooch, an 82-year-old former Washington town councilman who was involved in a serious two-vehicle crash on Oct. 18 in Flint Hill, died Tuesday evening while remaining hospitalized as a result of his injuries.

Careless first-time visitors to Shenandoah are described as wearing ‘flip flops’ and carrying bottles of ‘DASANI water’

The serious accident in Flint Hill on Sunday that involved a Rappahannock County Sheriff’s deputy has resulted in charges being filed by the Virginia State Police against the other driver

“This picture was taken about 8 a.m. Saturday [see above]. We assumed she had been an early-morning hiker like us, but someone in the parking lot later said she had been injured on Friday evening and spent the night on the mountain until the weather permitted helo flight.”

A sport utility-type vehicle pulling out of Settle’s Grocery & Garage in Flint Hill at approximately 1 p.m. this afternoon crashed head-on into a Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office cruiser being driven by a female deputy. Both drivers suffered injuries, although they did not appear to be life threatening.

The Sperryville Volunteer Fire Department has yet to provide the cause of a fire Monday morning at 180 Five Forks Road in Woodville that caused extensive damage to a house set a fair distance back from the road.

“It sounded like cannons firing,” said Gid Brown Hollow resident Brenda Van Ness, who happened upon a vehicle fire this morning across Route 211 from the Shell gasoline station.

Operations to extract a downed small aircraft from Buck Hollow in Shenandoah National Park were safely conducted today. 

NTSB determines doomed Piper PA-20 took off from DC area Monday afternoon, hitting stormy weather

Media kept away from Buck Hollow Trail above Sperryville

At 9:12 a.m. on Thursday an SUV traveling eastbound on Rt. 211 veered left off the road at the intersection with Rt. 729, colliding with the guardrail and overturning in the median, according to Virginia State Police.

At noon today (Monday) a four-door Ford Fiesta overturned on Harris Hollow Road an eighth of a mile west of Sunnyside Road. 

• ‘The first subject slipped on wet rocks and fell approximately 40 feet from the top of the falls’

BOS Chair Smith: ‘I think I'll work on this resolution for a bit, and take it forward on my own once the planning bit is flushed out’

An unidentified 35-year-old Boston man escaped serious injury in a tragic accident that shut down Route 28 in Fauquier County for several hours on Wednesday afternoon. 

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“It seeks to improve pedestrian safety in Sperryville as well as calm traffic in the village,” explains Sperryville business owner and alliance member Kerry Sutten. “Supervisor Smith has suggested the board consider the resolution at its July 6th board meeting.”

Shortly before 6 p.m. on this holiday evening a Tennessee motorist traveling east on Route 211 between Sperryville and Washington lost control of his four-door sedan and crashed head-on into one of several U.S. flag adorned antique Farmall tractors displayed every Fourth of July by Rappahann…

Motorcyclist killed in two-vehicle crash near Sperryville Sunday afternoon

Saturday’s spectacular weather was bound to bring out the motorcyclists. And that it did by the hundreds — sport bikes and roadsters to cruisers and choppers.

According to Rappahannock County Sheriff Connie Compton, “charges are pending” against a Rappahannock County man with a long criminal record surrounding a suspicious fire at his house last Friday afternoon in the 400 block of Aaron Mountain Road in Castleton.

Virginia State Police Trooper B. Coleman is investigating a single-vehicle fatal crash in Culpeper County. The crash occurred Dec. 2 at 7:55 a.m. on Route 1066 at Route 1068.