Three Kenbridge Residents Die in Accident

NOTTOWAY – An accident in Nottoway County this past weekend shocked and saddened Lunenburg residents as three Kenbridge residents lost their lives. Virginia State Police are investigating a two-vehicle crash in Nottoway County. The crash occurred Saturday (Sept. 10) at 9:01 p.m. at the intersection of West Colonial Trail and Cellar Creek Rd. 

A 2005 Honda Accord was traveling south on Cellar Creek Rd. when it failed to stop for the posted stop sign. The vehicle pulled onto West Colonial Trail and into the path of a westbound tractor-trailer. The tractor-trailer swerved in an attempt to avoid the Honda, but the two vehicles collided. The Honda came to rest in the median. 

The Honda’s male driver, Francisco Joseph Allen, 61, of Kenbridge, Va., and two passengers, Jacinta Maria Rosa Sanchez, 19, of Kenbridge, Va., and Robert Eugene Pennington, 41, of Kenbridge, Va., all died at the scene. 

The driver of the tractor-trailer, Randy Lee Marable of Saxe, Va., was not injured in the crash. 

The crash remains under investigation.