1 dead and 6 injured in collision between pickup truck and horse-drawn carriage in Virginia

FARMVILLE, Va. (AP) — One person was killed and six others injured when a pickup truck collided with the horse-drawn carriage they were traveling in, Virginia State Police said.

The accident occurred shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday in the 2700 block of Cumberland Road in the Farmville neighborhood of Cumberland County, police said in a news release. The area is about 50 miles west of Richmond.

At the time of the accident, seven people were on board the buggy. One died at the scene and the other six were taken to hospital with serious to life-threatening injuries, police said. The driver of the pickup truck was uninjured.

The accident is currently being investigated, police said.

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