A 68-year-old Springfield man has been charged in connection to a fatal crash that killed a motorcyclist near Burke’s Rolling Valley shopping center this spring.
The Fairfax County Police Department announced today (Friday) that the driver was charged with failing to yield the right of way after he allegedly crashed into the motorcyclist while trying to turn left out of the shopping center onto Old Keene Mill Road on April 25.
According to the FCPD, detectives believe the motorcyclist — identified by police as 50-year-old Burke resident Mohab Helmy — was traveling west on Old Keene Mill in the left through-lane when he ran into the side of a 2005 Toyota sedan.
Helmy died at the scene. He was the second motorcyclist to die in a traffic crash in Fairfax County this year, following a crash in Bailey’s Crossroads that killed a 19-year-old. The driver in that crash, which occurred on March 10, was also charged with failing to yield on a left turn, an infraction that comes with a standard $97 fine.
The driver in the April 25 crash was served a summons and is scheduled for an Aug. 22 adjudicatory hearing, according to Fairfax County General District Court records.
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