RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Some Richmond residents are shaken by the city’s latest deadly pedestrian crash — the third they’ve seen in only a week and a half.
Just before 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 6, a man in his 60s was crossing W. Leigh Street when a dump truck — which was turning left from N. Harrison Street onto W. Leigh — hit him, according to the Richmond Police Department.
The man is the third pedestrian killed by a vehicle in less than two weeks in Richmond, after Valentine director Bill Martin and an unidentified woman were hit and killed on Dec. 27, 2025 along E. Broad Street and on Jan. 3 along Semmes Avenue, respectively…