{"id":6889,"date":"2025-02-10T14:10:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T20:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/?p=6889"},"modified":"2025-02-10T14:10:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T20:10:42","slug":"big-rig-vs-suv-crash-in-painter-sends-4-to-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/virginia-truck-accidents\/big-rig-vs-suv-crash-in-painter-sends-4-to-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Big rig vs. SUV crash in Painter sends 4 to hospitals\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PAINTER, VA \u2013 Four people were sent to separate hospitals after a head-on crash between a 2016 Peterbilt propane truck and a 2018 Ford Escape Saturday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The collision happened after 8 a.m. at the intersection of Route 13 and Keller Pond Road, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wavy.com\/news\/local-news\/accomack-county\/route-13-crash-closes-northbound-and-southbound-lanes-in-accomack-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WAAVY<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Virginia State Patrol said road conditions were slick, which is a factor that caused the truck driver, 52, to lose control of his truck and, drift into the opposite lanes of traffic and hit the Ford SUV head-on. The truck then rolled over. The SUV was totaled as a result.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The SUV driver, 38, and her two children, ages 10 and 14, suffered serious, life-threatening wounds, while the truck driver sustained non-life-threatening wounds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EMS crews transported the truck driver, Christopher Fritzgerald Matthews, to Riverside Hospital and the SUV motorist, Loida Tema, to Norfolk General Hospital.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tema\u2019s 14-year-old child was airlifted to John Hopkins Children\u2019s Center in Baltimore, Maryland, and the 10-year-old was taken by ground to Norfolk CHKD Hospital.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=1YDUTWZM45T2rlX4Ak3j-_7pdKB682r0&amp;ehbc=2E312F&amp;noprof=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did you sustain injuries in a weather-related truck collision? If you were partially or not at all at fault for the wreck, you could have grounds for filing a truck accident claim. As you focus on your recovery, you can leave your claim in the trusted hands of our <a href=\"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Virginia truck accident attorney<\/strong><\/a>. Not only can our lawyer file your claim for you, but our legal advocate is ready to fight on your behalf for a compensation package that can assist you with lost income, medical bills, truck repairs, and more. Set up a free consultation with Truck Accident Lawyers LLC at<a href=\"tel:+18887745836\"> <strong>(888) 774-5836<\/strong> <\/a>or reach out <a href=\"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>online<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAINTER, VA \u2013 Four people were sent to separate hospitals after a head-on crash between a 2016 Peterbilt propane truck and a 2018 Ford Escape Saturday.\u00a0 The collision happened after 8 a.m. at the intersection of Route 13 and Keller Pond Road, according to WAAVY.\u00a0 Virginia State Patrol said road conditions were slick, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virginia-truck-accidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6892,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889\/revisions\/6892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}