A tanker truck is leaking gas into Difficult Run in Great Falls after crashing on a bridge over the stream early this morning (Thursday).
Fairfax County police and units from the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department responded to Leigh Mill Road at Kelso Road around 3:07 a.m. for a truck carrying “hazardous materials” that crashed on the bridge, according to scanner traffic.
A man who was hit by a car driver while riding a scooter in Mount Vernon last night (Tuesday) remains hospitalized in critical condition, police say.
Officers and medics responded to Mount Vernon Highway at Drew Court around 7:54 p.m. yesterday for a crash that the dispatcher initially said involved a pedestrian and a driver who fled the scene, according to scanner traffic.
A truck caught fire after colliding with a sedan on I-66 in the Vienna area earlier this afternoon (Monday), requiring a shutdown of all westbound lanes.
Units with the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department were dispatched to I-66 West prior to Nutley Street for the crash around 1:15 p.m., per scanner traffic.
A woman and a child were critically injured in a crash this evening (Wednesday) on Richmond Highway in Mount Vernon, police say.
According to scanner traffic, officers and emergency medical responders were dispatched to Richmond Highway (Route 1) at Mount Vernon Highway around 8:35 p.m. for the crash, which was described by police as a hit-and-run.
Virginia State Police spent hours scouring a storm drain in the Rose Hill area for a driver who allegedly fled the scene of a crash on I-495 this afternoon (Monday).
Troopers were responding to eastbound I-495 near Eisenhower Avenue around 2:35 p.m. for two vehicle crashes when a third crash occurred, according to state police.
A Maryland man is facing felony charges after an apparent traffic argument escalated into a hit-and-run crash in Tysons that sent a pedestrian to the hospital.
Police officers were dispatched to the 1900 block of Chain Bridge Road at 4:28 p.m. on Dec. 23 for the crash, which reportedly occurred outside the American Girl store at Tysons Corner Center, according to scanner traffic.
A driver was critically injured in a crash this morning (Friday) that has completely shut down Route 7 (Leesburg Pike) near Colvin Run Mill Park.
Fairfax County police officers and Fire and Rescue responders were dispatched to eastbound Leesburg Pike at Serenity Woods Lane in Great Falls around 9:20 a.m. for a two-vehicle crash, according to scanner traffic.
A man was arrested last week after allegedly fleeing a crash in Vienna that left a pedestrian with serious injuries on Thanksgiving.
The pedestrian had gotten dropped off by a Lyft driver in the 900 block of Park Street SE around 8:15 p.m. on Nov. 28 and was crossing the street when a vehicle in the residential street’s northbound lane hit him, according to the Town of Vienna Police Department.
The number of pedestrians and cyclists killed in traffic crashes in Fairfax County have doubled this year, one study says.
A total of 19 pedestrians have died this year through November — a substantial increase from the 10 tallied in 2023, according to data compiled by the advocacy group Northern Virginia Families for Safe Streets (NOVA FSS). In addition, a bicyclist was killed on West Ox Road in October, the county’s first cyclist fatality since 2021.
The police chief for Prince George’s Community College in Maryland has been arrested after he allegedly crashed into another driver near the Reserve at Fairfax Corner Apartments while drunk earlier this month.
Derek Myers, a 55-year-old Burke resident, was driving east on Random Hills Road when he lost control of his Hyundai Elantra near Fairfax Hills Way around 7:30 p.m. last Friday, Dec. 6, the Fairfax County Police Department says, citing preliminary findings by detectives.
