Lexington Police Department

Lexington Police work crash with injuries in Lexington

All inbound lanes of the 800 block of West Main Street in Lexington were blocked Friday due to a collision. Lexington Police officers asked driver to use caution moving through the area as emergency personnel were attending to vehicles and there were injuries.All lanes of traffic were opened later. The cause of the collision is […]

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Crews respond to fire in Lexington

The Lexington Police Department asked driver to please please use caution entering and exiting the Woodcreek subdivision Saturday evening. Due to a structure fire in the 200 block of Stoneridge Drive, emergency personnel were directing traffic away from the fire scene in order to conduct an investigation. The Lexington County Fire Service also responded to […]

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Lexington Police work 2-car collision on Chariot Street, Wednesday evening

The Lexington Police Department reported a crash on Chariot Street (between West Main Street and Hendrix Street) around 7 p.m. Wednesday. The street was closed due to a 2-car collision. One of the vehicles involved was overturned. Police asked drivers to please avoid the area. Emergency personnel were working to clear the road. LPD photo

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Crash results in portion of I-20 being closed down on Wednesday, with traffic diverted

Interstate 20 eastbound at the 61 mile marker was shut down, around 10 a.m. for a couple hours Wednesday after a multivehicle collision. The collision was on eastbound I-20, between Augusta Road (US-1) and Sunset Blvd. (US-378.) It resulted in the eastbound ramp being closed at Augusta Road. The ramp reopened around noon. Traffic was […]

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Driver fails to yield the right of way, police say, and it results in a crash on Sunset Boulevard

Lexington Police Department responded to a collision in the 4800 block of Sunset Blvd. (US-378) Thursday. The crash resulted in the closing of an outbound lane.All lanes were reopened. The wreck was caused by a driver failing to yield the right of way during a turn.

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Lexington Police say avoid Augusta Road Thursday morning because signal lights likely to be out near I-20

Message from Lexington Police Department: Those who usually use Augusta Road (US-1) as part of your morning commute are asked to consider an alternate route as signal lights are on flash in the area of I-20 and will likely be out as SCDOT begins work at 6:30 a.m. to fix the issue. LPD officers will […]

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Single-car crash results in DUI charge in Lexington

A single car collision was cleared from Old Chapin Road in Lexington overnight Wednesday, into Thursday morning. The driver of the vehicle that crashed was arrested for DUI and transported from the scene by EMS. Dominion Energy is scheduled to replace the damaged power pole involved in the wreck Thursday.

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Lexington Police work 2-car crash on Sunset Boulevard, Saturday

All lanes of Sunset Boulevard, near Walmart, were shut down Saturday around noon due to a 2-car collision. Emergency personnel were on the scene detouring drivers around the collision.All lanes were reopened. The cause of the collision was disregarding a traffic control device.

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