(Updated at 2:25 p.m. on 2/15/2024) A 19-year-old driver was killed Wednesday (Feb. 14) when he crashed into a dump truck on Richmond Highway, police say.
Police and Fairfax County Fire and Rescue units were called to the intersection of Richmond Highway (Route 1) and Giles Run Road around 6:25 a.m. for the crash, according to scanner traffic on Open MHz.
“Caller’s advising he’s in a dump truck,” the dispatcher said, noting that at least one of the vehicles was reportedly overturned. “…The whole intersection is blocked.”
One of the drivers, an adult man, was declared dead at the scene, the Fairfax County Police Department said on Twitter at 7:14 a.m.
Richmond Highway was closed in both directions from Gunston Road to the exit ramp off I-95 while police investigated.
In an update released today (Thursday), the FCPD identified the man who died as Occoquan resident Jason Emeric Brunsman.
A preliminary investigation found that Brunsman was driving south on Richmond Highway in a Ford Transit van when he rear-ended a roll-back dumpster truck that was waiting to turn left onto Giles Run Road. The dump truck driver wasn’t injured in the crash, according to police.
“Preliminarily, detectives from our Crash Reconstruction Unit do not believe alcohol was a factor in the crash and are investigating to determine if speed was a factor,” the FCPD said.
Brunsman was the sixth person to be killed in a traffic crash in Fairfax County this year, the police department says. At this time in 2023, there had been three fatalities.
Officers are on scene of a fatal vehicle crash involving a dump truck and a van at the intersection of Rt. 1 & Giles Run in Lorton. Rt. 1 closed in both directions for the investigation. One adult male driver declared deceased at the scene. Please use an alternate route. pic.twitter.com/jlgyZmLjpF
— Fairfax County Police (@FairfaxCountyPD) February 14, 2024
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