A man has died following a single-vehicle crash that occurred near Reston National Golf Course Thursday afternoon (Oct. 30).
Local police officers and responders with the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department were dispatched to Soapstone Drive at Golf Course Square in Reston around 2:41 p.m. for a crash with entrapment, according to scanner traffic.
At least seven people have been hospitalized, and local residents are being advised to shelter in place, as firefighters seek to control a two-alarm fire at a metal scrap yard along Richmond Highway in Lorton.
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue units were dispatched just after 1 p.m. to the Davis Industries property at 9920 Richmond Highway for an outside fire, according to scanner traffic.
A couple of projects will create some road closures and detours around Fairfax this weekend.
The first is a ramp closure on Fairfax County Parkway (Route 286) onto I-95 tonight and again on Monday (Sept. 22).
A pedestrian who was hit by a driver in the Daventry neighborhood of West Springfield last week has died, police say.
Jay Kim, 76, of Springfield was apparently crossing Hunter Village Drive using the crosswalk at Rockledge Court Friday morning (Aug. 15) when the driver of a northbound 2007 Toyota Camry struck him, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.
Construction is getting underway on a partial revamp of the George Washington Memorial Parkway and Route 123 (Dolley Madison Blvd) interchange in McLean.
The ramps that connect southbound GW Parkway to westbound Route 123 and vice versa has closed starting today (Monday) so that work can begin on two new ramps, the National Park Service (NPS) announced last week.
A man was killed in a single-vehicle crash on Fairfax County Parkway in Burke earlier this afternoon (Friday).
Officers were dispatched to Fairfax County Parkway at Old Keene Mill Road around 4:09 p.m. for a tractor-trailer that had flipped over, according to scanner traffic.
A person was killed in a multi-vehicle crash on the Capital Beltway (I-495) near North Springfield Elementary School during the afternoon rush hour today (Monday).
The crash involving a Toyota Tacoma truck, a Scion XB hatchback, a Honda Civic, a Ford F350 and a Nissan Rogue occurred around 3:08 p.m. in the northbound lanes of I-495 near Braddock Road in north Springfield, according to the Virginia State Police.
Firefighters battled both fire and water in the Reston area over the past weekend.
Firefighter injured in Herndon apartment fire
The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department has rescued a group of hikers who got stuck at Scott’s Run Nature Preserve during the storm that just passed through Northern Virginia.
According to scanner traffic, rescue and swift water rescue units were dispatched to the park off of Georgetown Pike around 6:23 p.m., as a thunderstorm dropped a deluge of rain on northern Fairfax County.
Fairfax County police are investigating a crash on Braddock Road that sent a motorcyclist to the hospital with serious injuries.
Officers and medics were dispatched to Braddock Road at Little River Turnpike in Lincolnia around 8:44 p.m. for a crash involving a motorcyclist and a driver.
