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NOW: Woman seriously injured in Reston car crash, police say

Summerchase Court in Reston (via Google Maps)

A woman has been hospitalized with critical injuries after a car crash in Reston’s Summer Ridge neighborhood near the North Point Village Center.

Fairfax County police officers and medics were dispatched to the 1500 block of Summerchase Court around 6:19 p.m. for a two-vehicle crash “with entrapment,” according to scanner traffic on Open MHz.

Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department responders reported that an older woman was found unconscious and “pinned between her vehicle and another that’s parked,” per the scanner.

“One adult female was taken to the hospital with injuries considered life threatening,” the Fairfax County Police Department said in a tweet at 7:27 p.m.

Summerchase Court is currently closed as the FCPD’s Crash Reconstruction Unit investigates.

“Please use an alternate route,” police said.

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  • Angela Woolsey is the site editor for FFXnow. A graduate of George Mason University, she worked as a general assignment reporter for the Fairfax County Times before joining Local News Now as the Tysons Reporter editor in 2020.