Dirt-bike rider injured in Culpeper accident

A 22-year-old man was critically injured Saturday afternoon following a dirt-bike accident in Chesterfield Estates just northwest of Culpeper.

The man, whose identity has not been released, was reportedly attempting a triple jump on a homemade motocross course when he lost control and was thrown from his dirt bike, which then landed on him.

Paramedics at the scene treated the rider for a collapsed lung and other internal injuries.

He was later airlifted to the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville.

--Donnie Johnston