A pedestrian suffered non-life-threatening injuries after a hit-and-run on King Street on Wednesday night (April 22).
The Alexandria Fire and Police Departments received multiple calls around 11 p.m. reporting that a man had been struck by a vehicle near the intersection of King Street and Park Road in the Taylor Run neighborhood, near the George Washington Masonic National Memorial. The striking vehicle was described in radio dispatches as a Ford pickup truck of unknown color missing its passenger-side mirror.
The victim was reported as lying in the road and breathing, according to radio dispatches. He was transported to George Washington University Hospital.
The crash briefly shut down traffic in both directions on King Street.
The incident follows a string of recent crashes involving pedestrians, including one that killed a woman on Monday (April 20) in Old Town North. On April 4, a driver was cited after a pedestrian was struck in Del Ray. Three days later, on April 7, a pedestrian was struck in the area of N. Van Dorn Street and Sanger Avenue. On April 11, a pedestrian was struck on N. Van Dorn Street while getting out of the way of an Alexandria Fire Department engine. A child was struck by a vehicle on Sanger Avenue near William Ramsay Elementary School on April 15.
