Two bicyclists were injured on the same day in separate crashes at Washington & Old Dominion Trail crossings in Fairfax County.
Officers were first dispatched on Sunday (Sept. 28) around 10:28 a.m. to the 2300 block of Cedar Lane in Dunn Loring for a crash involving “a vehicle versus a bicyclist,” according to scanner traffic. A dispatcher told responders that a medic would be required.
Investigators determined that a driver struck the bicyclist near the W&OD Trail, the Fairfax County Police Department told FFXnow.
“An adult male was transported to a local hospital in non-life threatening condition,” the FCPD said by email. “The driver remained on scene.”
Cedar Lane was momentarily closed at the trail crossing as police and an ambulance cleared the scene, but it reopened to vehicle traffic around 10:45 a.m.
However, a different cyclist sustained injuries in another crash in the Reston section of the W&OD Trail that afternoon.
According to the FCPD, officers responded to the intersection of Sunset Hills Road and Clay Lane at 6:07 p.m. after “a vehicle and bicycle collided.”
“The bicyclist, an adult female, was transported to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries,” the FCPD said.
As in the Dunn Loring case, the driver remained on scene.
According to preliminary state data, Fairfax County has seen 30 people injured in 27 different crashes involving bicyclists so far this year. Last year, a cyclist was killed in a crash on West Ox Road — the county’s first bicyclist death since 2021, when there were three fatalities.
In an analysis of TREDS data released in August, the advocacy group Northern Virginia Families for Safe Streets found that about a quarter of the 422 crashes involving pedestrians and cyclists that occurred in Fairfax between January 2024 and April 2025 resulted in a death or serious injury, though the crash rate has declined since 2022.
Richmond Highway alone accounted for four fatalities and nine crashes with serious injuries.
Suggesting that Northern Virginia should target a 15% reduction in serious injuries from 2025 to 2026, the organization called for infrastructure improvements and other changes to reduce speeds on high-crash roadways, safety awareness campaigns during the late summer and fall months as the days get darker sooner, and an expansion of speed cameras or other technology to enforce traffic laws.
Hat tip to Adam Rubinstein
