An Alexandria man has died from injuries he sustained while crossing Richmond Highway in the Hybla Valley area earlier this month, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.
Julio Quintanilla, 61, was struck by a 2025 Toyota Corolla heading southbound in the 7900 block of Richmond Highway on July 3 around 8:06 p.m. He was taken to the hospital, and though his injuries were initially believed to be non-life-threatening, the Medical Examiner’s Office informed police on Saturday (July 18) that Quintanilla had died.
The driver of the Toyota, who was uninjured, had remained at the scene after the crash, and Quintanilla had received a citation for walking outside the crosswalk.
“Preliminarily, alcohol appears to be a factor for the pedestrian,” the FCPD said.
The department is asking anyone with information on the incident to call its Crash Reconstruction Unit at 703-280-0543.
The fatality is the latest in a spate of crashes involving pedestrians in Fairfax County this summer, many of them on Richmond Highway. Only one day before Quintanilla was hit — and only a little over a mile down the road — a woman using a mobility device was fatally struck by a Ford F-250 at the intersection of Dart Drive in Hybla Valley.
In mid-June, another man on Richmond Highway, this time in the Huntington area, was hit by a car and then run over by a different car. He died at the scene of the crash around the Fort Hunt Road intersection.
Last month, police held a press conference at the intersection of Richmond Highway and Frye Road — only a five-minute drive from the spot where Quintanilla would, two weeks later, be fatally struck by a car — asking pedestrians and drivers alike to pay attention and follow the rules of the road.
An analysis released at the end of May by the volunteer-led advocacy group Northern Virginia Families for Safe Streets cited poor lighting and crossings, as well as intoxication from alcohol, as the main driving factors behind frequent serious crashes in the 14-mile-long corridor from the Alexandria border down to the Occoquan River south of Lorton, FFXnow previously reported.
