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.
A motorcyclist has died following a crash involving a tractor-trailer on Route 29 in the Fair Lakes area.
Officers and units with the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department were dispatched around 1:51 p.m. Tuesday (May 19) for the crash on Route 29 at Meadow Estates Drive, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.
Two adults were killed and two children were hospitalized — including a toddler police fear may not survive — as a result of an SUV crash in Oakton 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.
In 2022, Justice High School junior Lesly Diaz-Bonilla was struck and killed as she was leaving the Barcroft View Apartments, on her way to school. Just four years earlier, in the same Fairfax County location, a mother and daughter were injured by a hit-and-run driver.
Diaz-Bonilla’s death drew attention to a safety problem that continues to plague a 4-mile stretch of Columbia Pike between Bailey’s Crossroads and Annandale, where poor design and inattentive drivers often put pedestrians at risk.
A Falls Church man has died weeks after he was struck by a driver while riding an electric scooter near Gatehouse Plaza in Merrifield, police say.
Not long before midnight on the evening of April 1, the driver of a 2022 Toyota Corolla heading north on Gallows Road crashed into Mesfin Abay, 37, who was traveling east across Gallows Road at the Gatehouse Road intersection on an e-scooter, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.
A motorcyclist died yesterday (Wednesday) after colliding with a pickup truck on the Capital Beltway (I-495).
Around 3:54 p.m., Virginia State Police troopers responded to a two-vehicle crash on the highway just west of Exit 176 to Telegraph Road in the Rose Hill area, according to a press release.
For the second time this year, a pedestrian has died in a crash on the Fairfax County section of Richmond Highway (Route 1).
Police responded at 10:30 p.m. on Friday (April 3) to Richmond Highway’s intersection with Pohick Road and Backlick Road in Fort Belvoir after receiving a report of a crash involving a pedestrian.
Two years after a pedestrian was struck and killed by a sedan in Hybla Valley, the alleged driver is facing criminal charges.
An unnamed 16-year-old has been charged with manslaughter and hit-and-run — both felonies — for their role in the March 10, 2024, crash that killed 63-year-old James Johnson, the Fairfax County Police Department announced yesterday (Thursday).
Four people in Fairfax County were killed Saturday (March 14) between two crashes in Reston and Mount Vernon, according to police.
Among the deceased are three adults — including a 79-year-old man — and one juvenile, the Fairfax County Police Department said yesterday (Sunday).
Three people were killed and two were hospitalized as a result of a single-vehicle crash near Crossfield Elementary School in Reston earlier this morning (Saturday).
As of 10:30 a.m., Fox Mill Road remains closed in both directions at Folkstone Drive, where the crash occurred, as detectives with the Fairfax County Police Department’s Crash Reconstruction Unit investigate.
