An investigation remains underway into a single-vehicle crash in Oakton that killed two adults and sent two children to the hospital early yesterday (Sunday) morning.
Officers and first responders with the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department were dispatched around 12:28 a.m. yesterday to Route 123 (Chain Bridge Road) over I-66 for the crash, which involved an SUV “that ran into the barrier” on the northbound side of the road, according to scanner traffic.
Additional medics were quickly requested after responders found two adults who had to be extricated from the vehicle, both of them suffering from injuries described as life-threatening.
The driver, a woman, was pronounced dead at the scene at around 12:43 a.m. An adult male passenger who was transported to Inova Fairfax Hospital in critical condition later died, the Fairfax County Police Department said on social media at 1:50 a.m.
Two children were also taken to a hospital, one of them with life-threatening injuries. Scanner traffic indicates they might be 1 and 8 years old.
Route 123 was shut down in both directions, as detectives from the FCPD’s Crash Reconstruction Unit investigated.
Additional information on the crash is expected to be released sometime today, the FCPD said.
The crash brings Fairfax County’s traffic-related death toll for this year up to 16 people by FFXnow’s count. Preliminary state data currently shows 12 fatalities in the county so far in 2026, but doesn’t include yesterday’s crash and only lists one fatality in March, when four people were killed in two different crashes in the same weekend.
Two juvenile passengers were transported with injuries, one life-threatening. Northbound and southbound Route 123 are shut down as Crash Reconstruction detectives investigate. Please use an alternate route. (2/2)
— Fairfax County Police (@FairfaxCountyPD) May 17, 2026
