The Virginia State Police is investigating a two-vehicle crash in the Capital Beltway (I-495) toll lanes near Dunn Loring that killed two people yesterday (Sunday).
Police and Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department (FCFRD) units responded to the northbound I-495 Express Lanes around 2:34 a.m. south of Leesburg Pike (Route 7) for a “crash with injury [and] vehicle on fire,” according to scanner traffic.
According to state police, the crash occurred near the 48-mile marker, which is between the Route 7 and I-66 interchanges.
“A 2017 Ford Edge was travelling southbound in the northbound lanes when it struck a 2004 Jeep Patriot head-on,” the VSP said in a press release today (Monday).
The drivers of both vehicles died at the scene, police say. The Ford driver has been identified as Tremayne Gross, a 24-year-old D.C. resident, while the Jeep driver was 32-year-old Meghan Elizabeth Mathis of Westminister, Maryland.
According to police, both drivers were wearing seatbelts at the time of the crash. There were no other passengers in either of the vehicles.
“The crash remains under investigation,” the VSP said.
There were 13 people killed in vehicle crashes in Fairfax County this year through April, according to preliminary data reported to the state. In addition, a teen driver died after crashing into a tree on Chapel Road in Clifton on May 8, so Gross and Mathis’s deaths bring the total number of fatalities in 2025 so far up to 16.
