Henrico County Personal Injury Lawyer
If you were hurt in Henrico County, your mail probably says Richmond and your case doesn’t. Henrico has its own circuit, its own police division and its own six month clock when the county is a defendant. A Henrico personal injury lawyer can tell you which of those is already running. Our office is here, and the first conversation costs nothing.
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Gray Broughton Injury Law works these files from an office inside Henrico County and tries them in the 14th Judicial Circuit on East Parham Road. The firm finds who is responsible, identifies every policy that could pay and prepares the case for a jury whether or not one ever sees it. Tell us what happened and someone can say which deadline applies to you.
Crashes in Henrico, by the numbers
5,020 crashes
In Henrico County, in 2025.
31 people killed
A death rate of 0.14 per 1,000 licensed drivers.
3,253 people injured
Same county, same year.
465 speed-related crashes
8 deaths, 297 injuries.
All four are from the Virginia DMV Highway Safety Office’s Virginia Traffic Crash Facts, data year 2025, Henrico County.
Where people are getting hurt in Henrico
Serious injury here is concentrated, not scattered. The county’s Arrive Alive safety action plan, using crash data for 2019 through 2023, identifies a 140 mile high injury network that is 8 percent of Henrico’s roads and carries 75 percent of its crashes that kill or seriously injure. Four of the five worst intersections are on West Broad Street.
Its sharpest finding is about people on foot. Pedestrians were 29 percent of Henrico’s traffic deaths over those five years against 15 percent statewide, and 43 percent of pedestrian crashes happened in darkness.
Why choose Gray Broughton Injury Law?
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The office is in Henrico, not near it
Files are worked from inside the county, minutes from the courthouse at 4309 East Parham Road and the police records section at 7721.
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Comfortable with a county on the other side
A claim against Henrico County is a claim against a government, with a shorter clock and a named recipient. Gray Broughton is veteran owned, most of its trial lawyers came out of the JAG corps, and Sharif Gray prosecuted for the Commonwealth. Reading a public file is familiar ground here.
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The people who handle brain injuries handle these
Other Virginia lawyers refer their traumatic brain injury cases here. The caseload stays small enough that you can reach the person working yours.
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Tell us what happened and what you have so far: the crash report number, the name of the other driver’s insurer, where you were treated. Someone reads every one of these. You will hear back with a plain answer about whether a deadline is already running, and the review does not commit you to anything.
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The firm insurance companies do not want to see
Trial lawyers, not settlement lawyers
The firm builds a file from the first medical record as though a jury will see it. That is what gives a settlement conversation any weight, and insurers price a case differently when the preparation is already done.
Veteran owned, and it shows in the preparation
Gray Broughton is veteran owned and its trial lawyers include former military JAG officers. What carries over is not a slogan. It is documentation, and the assumption that the other side will test every piece of it.
A caseload small enough to work
The firm takes fewer cases than it could. A client should be able to reach the person handling the file and get a straight answer about what happens next and why it matters.
Other lawyers send their cases here
Virginia firms refer cases to Gray Broughton and bring the firm in as co-counsel on catastrophic files. A referral from someone who does this for a living is the hardest recommendation to manufacture.
Visit the Henrico office
The postal address reads Richmond. The building is in Henrico County, which is the confusion this page exists to sort out. Tell us what happened and someone will say whether a notice needs to go out this week.
Where Henrico claims start
Car crashes on West Broad Street
Broad Street at Pump Road carried 129 crashes in five years, the worst intersection in the county. A Henrico car accident claim usually starts with whose policy sits behind the other vehicle.
Pedestrians struck in Henrico
Pedestrians were 29 percent of Henrico’s traffic deaths and 15 percent of Virginia’s, and 43 percent of those crashes happened after dark. Lighting, signal timing and crosswalk markings are evidence, and they get repaved.
Truck crashes on the I-295 freight ring
VDOT’s 2025 counts put trucks above 10 percent of traffic on I-295 near the airport and above 25 percent east of New Market Road. A tractor trailer brings a corporate defendant, a driver file and a maintenance history.
Falls and unsafe property in Henrico
Short Pump and Innsbrook are retail and office property, and the question is what the owner knew before you fell. If the property belongs to the county, the clock is six months.
Motorcycle crashes in Henrico
Virginia keeps seat belt non-use out of a case entirely. It does not do the same for a helmet, which is only barred as negligence per se, and that gap shapes a Henrico motorcycle claim.
Fatal crashes and wrongful death
Only a court appointed personal representative may bring a claim after a death, and the two years run from the death rather than the crash.
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Not sure which of those describes what happened to you? That is a normal place to start. Tell us the road, the date and who else was involved.
Virginia does not divide fault between the parties
Nearly half of Henrico’s pedestrian crashes happen in the dark, and the first thing an adjuster asks about one is what the person on foot was wearing and whether they were in the crosswalk. The same instinct shows up after a Broad Street rear-end: were you looking at your phone, were you following too close.
Those questions matter more here than they would in most states, because Virginia runs no percentages. The rule, from Litchford v. Hancock, is that negligence of the parties may not be compared, and any negligence of a plaintiff which is a proximate cause of the accident will bar a recovery. Virginia’s model jury instruction says the same thing to the jury deciding your case.
Which court hears a Henrico injury case
Henrico is a county, and the City of Richmond is not in it. Va. Code § 17.1-506 puts Henrico in the fourteenth circuit and Richmond in the thirteenth. A Richmond postal address does not move your case, because under Va. Code § 8.01-262 venue follows where the cause of action arose.
- Henrico General District Court, 14th District, 4309 East Parham Road. It hears claims to $4,500 by itself and shares anything up to $50,000 with the circuit court, a ceiling raised from $25,000 in 2025. No jury sits there.
- Henrico Circuit Court, 14th Judicial Circuit, same building. Everything above that ceiling, and the only one of the three where a jury is available. Juvenile and domestic relations sits separately, down the road at 4201.
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division. Its territory covers Henrico, so a case with a federal defendant or diverse parties can land downtown after all.
Two years, six months, and the form Henrico’s website hands you
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Two years, unless the injured person is a child
Va. Code § 8.01-243 gives two years for personal injury, and the clock is tolled while the injured person is a minor or incapacitated. After a death, the two years run from the date of death rather than the crash.
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Six months if Henrico County is the defendant
A pothole, a county vehicle, a fall on county property. Va. Code § 15.2-209 bars the claim unless a written statement giving its nature, its time and its place reaches the county attorney, chief executive or mayor inside six months. The one thing that saves a late one is actual knowledge by one of those officers, or by a covering insurer, in the same window.
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The county's own claim page points somewhere else
Henrico’s file a claim page routes you to Risk Management, a division of the Department of Finance, by fax, email or an online portal, and states no deadline at all. The County Attorney is eight street numbers away at 4301 East Parham Road. Filling out the county’s form is not the same as giving the notice the statute names.
Frequently asked questions
Henrico’s. Thousands of Henrico addresses read Richmond, including Richmond International Airport and Henrico Doctors’ Hospital, both of which sit in the county. Henrico is the 14th Judicial Circuit at 4309 East Parham Road. Richmond is the 13th. The postal address does not decide it.
Not by itself. Risk Management is a division of the county’s finance department and it is not a recipient the notice statute names. The statute names the county attorney, the chief executive or the mayor. The county’s own claim page offers fax, email and an online portal, and states no deadline.
By the police. Henrico is one of the few Virginia counties with its own police division rather than a sheriff’s patrol, a split the county made in the 1930s. The sheriff runs the jail, courthouse security and civil process, so the sheriff may serve your lawsuit but had nothing to do with your crash.
In person or by mail only, for $5, from the Police Division records section at 7721 East Parham Road. There is no online option. Photo identification is required, and the county lists an involved person’s attorney as an authorized requester. Accident photographs are $15 per disc.
Probably not. GRTC is an incorporated company jointly owned by the City of Richmond and Chesterfield County, and Henrico’s relationship to it is contractual. The Pulse and several routes run in Henrico, but the corporate entity is the defendant, and naming the county instead can cost the claim.