Fairfax County police are searching for the driver behind a fatal pedestrian crash that occurred early yesterday (Tuesday) morning in Seven Corners.
Officers responded at around 1:22 a.m. to Arlington Blvd (Route 50) at Patrick Henry Drive after a caller reported that a pedestrian had been struck by a vehicle and was lying in the roadway, according to scanner traffic.
The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department transported the adult man to Inova Fairfax Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased. As of last night, the Fairfax County Police Department hadn’t released his identity publicly, since his family was still being notified.
Based on a preliminary investigation, detectives believe the man was crossing Arlington Blvd from north to south when he was struck by the driver of a “light-colored sedan” heading east on Route 50, according to the FCPD.
Though the man was in the crosswalk at the time of the crash, he was walking “against the pedestrian signal,” the FCPD said. The driver left the scene before police arrived.
“The investigation into the crash continues as detectives work to identify the driver and vehicle involved,” the FCPD said. “Speed and alcohol are under investigation.”
The Arlington Blvd crash is the third fatal one reported in Fairfax County this month, following a collision between a motorcyclist and semi-truck on Route 29 on May 19 and an SUV crash at the I-66 and Route 123 interchange in Oakton two days earlier.
The SUV crash involved only one vehicle but killed four people, including a toddler who succumbed to her injuries, the FCPD confirmed to other media outlets. According to WUSA9, the only survivor of the crash — an 8-year-old boy — remains in the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The driver of the striking vehicle fled the scene in a silver sedan. Crash Reconstruction detectives are en route to investigate. The intersection is closed. Please use an alternate route. Call 911 w/ info. (2/2)
— Fairfax County Police (@FairfaxCountyPD) May 26, 2026
Preliminary state data indicates that 15 people, including five pedestrians, have been killed in crashes in Fairfax County so far this year, but that doesn’t include the six people who have now died in May. Last year’s death toll reached 45 people.
Per state data, this is the first fatal pedestrian crash on Arlington Blvd since 2022, when a 76-year-old man and a 66-year-old man died in separate crashes in the West Falls Church area that December.
However, there have been multiple fatal crashes in recent years around the Arlington Blvd and Patrick Henry intersection. Back in 2024, a pedestrian died in October weeks after he was struck by a driver while crossing Patrick Henry Drive, and a woman died in a vehicle fire following a crash that April.
In addition, a pedestrian was struck and injured at the intersection on May 3 around 8:45 p.m., but the crash wasn’t fatal, state data shows.
For years, Fairfax County has been planning to overhaul the confounding interchange to the north where Route 50, Route 7, Wilson Blvd and Sleepy Hollow Road meet, securing regional funding in 2024 for the first segment of a proposed “ring” road. A marked crosswalk and pedestrian refuge have also been proposed on Patrick Henry Drive, though the county’s efforts to implement even small-scale pedestrian projects have been slow to come to fruition.
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