A Goochland County volunteer firefighter will not face charges related to an accident involving a county fire engine, which he was driving.

The driver, identified by the Virginia State Police as William Shumate, 35, was cleared of any charges in the single-vehicle accident, which occurred at approximately 10:35 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 29.

A call of reported smoke inside a home drew responders from fire Companies 4, 5, and 6 at about 10:06 a.m., according to Goochland’s Deputy Chief Eddie Ferguson.

Shumate was driving Co. 5’s 2007 Pierce-Ash Engine north on Fairground Road, with lights and sirens, at the time of the accident, which occurred about two-tenths of a mile south of Mickeytown Road.

The engine, according to Virginia State Police Sgt. Tom Cunningham, ran off the road, crossed over into the southbound lane and came back to the northbound lane, subsequently striking an embankment and overturning.

Shumate had to be extracted from the vehicle. He was flown via Med Flight I to VCU Medical Center in Richmond with injuries that were described as “serious but not life-threatening.”

The fire engine involved was a new fire engine and was equipped with special occupant safety systems to include side air bags and roll over protection which is believed to have provided protection to the firefighter, according to Ferguson.

Personnel from Hanover Fire-EMS and the Henrico Division of Fire assisted both on the scene and with handling other emergency incidents in the county.

Cunningham said Thursday that the incident was still under investigation. But Ferguson, via a release Friday, said authorities had filed the incident report with no offenses charged against the driver.

Ferguson added that the volunteer, whom he wouldn’t identify, continues to recover from his injuries. Goochland County Fire-Rescue refused further comment on the extent of the injuries received in the crash.

The department did, however, release that it would be conducting an internal review of the accident in the hopes of highlighting the “lessons learned,” said Chief Ken Brown.

Though exact figures weren’t available as of press time, Brown did say that the engine received “excessive damage.”