A driver has been hospitalized with potentially life-threatening injuries from a three-vehicle crash in Burke.
Police officers and emergency medical services were dispatched to Fairfax County Parkway at Burke Centre Parkway around 8:53 a.m. for a crash with a trapped person, according to scanner traffic on Open MHz.
At least one vehicle was found overturned onto its roof with the driver pinned inside.
“One driver was air lifted to a local hospital in life-threatening condition,” the Fairfax County Police Department reported just before 11 a.m.
Northbound Fairfax County Parkway has been closed at the intersection as Crash Reconstruction Unit detectives investigate, police said.
The Virginia Department of Transportation studied Burke Centre Parkway this fall for potential safety improvements after a teen was killed in a crash outside the Burke Centre Shopping Center in July.
Crash Reconstruction Units are on scene of a 3-vehicle crash at NB Fairfax County Pkwy & Burke Centre Pkwy in Burke. One driver was air lifted to a local hospital in life-threatening condition. NB Fairfax County Pkwy is closed at this intersection. Please use another route. #FCPD pic.twitter.com/3Tso2wn11U
— Fairfax County Police (@FairfaxCountyPD) December 11, 2023
