The Richmond Police Department Crash Team has identified the driver who died after crashing a van into a home in the 2400 block of Buford Avenue yesterday as John Johnson, 59, of Cartersville, Virginia.
Thursday, October 13, 2022, at approximately 4:25 p.m., officers were called to the intersection of Buford and Lynhaven avenues for the report of a collision. Officers arrived and found a van that had crashed through a fence on one property and continued to a second property and collided with a house at that location. An adult male, Johnson, the sole occupant of the van, was transported to a local hospital where yesterday he succumbed to his injury. The house was unoccupied at the time of the crash.
The RPD Crash Team responded to the scene. The investigation continues.
Anyone
with further information about this incident is asked to contact RPD Crash Team Investigator G. Drago at (804)
646-1369 or call Crime Stoppers at
(804) 780-1000. The P3 Tips Crime Stoppers app for smartphones may also be
used. All Crime Stoppers methods are
anonymous.
