An 11-year-old boy suffered non-life threatening injuries after being struck by a vehicle at an intersection near William Ramsay Elementary School in the West End on Wednesday evening, according to Alexandria Police Department radio dispatches.
The incident occurred just after 6 p.m. in the 5700 block of Sanger Avenue near the intersection with Derby Court. The driver of the vehicle that struck the child stayed at the scene, according to the radio dispatches.
A motorcyclist died in a crash on the Capital Beltway yesterday (Wednesday) near Alexandria, according to Virginia State Police.
State troopers responded around 3:52 p.m. to a collision between a 2005 Suzuki motorcycle and pickup truck on eastbound I-495 just west of Telegraph Road (Exit 176). Bystanders attempted to provide aid to the motorcyclist, who was found lying in the roadway by state troopers.
A man was struck by a vehicle that swerved to get out of the way of an Alexandria Fire Department engine on Saturday (April 11), according to radio dispatches.
The fire was first reported before 7:15 p.m. as an odor of smoke in the 200 block of Gretna Green Court in the Landmark area. AFD called for backup after finding smoke coming from the attic of a three-level townhouse.
Alexandria police and fire are responding to the West End for a pedestrian crash this afternoon (Tuesday).
The pedestrian was struck around 3:22 p.m. in the area of N. Van Dorn Street and Sanger Avenue, according to the police and fire scanner. Alexandria Police Department spokesperson Rebekka Heite told ALXnow the pedestrian is an adult woman.
A driver was cited with failure to pay full time attention after a pedestrian was struck and injured in Del Ray on Saturday (April 4), according to the Alexandria Police Department.
APD and the Alexandria Fire Department arrived on scene just after 4 p.m. in response to the pedestrian crash at the intersection of Mount Vernon Avenue and E. Braddock Road.
The Alexandria Police and Fire Departments responded to two rollover crashes over the weekend, according to radio dispatches.
No injuries were reported in both crashes, which occurred early Friday night (April 3) on W. Glebe Road in Arlandria and Sunday morning (April 5) on Richmond Highway near the Potomac Yard Shopping Center.
Speed limits on Edsall Road and S. Pickett Street in the West End will be reduced from 35 to 25 mph in April.
The reduction will apply to the full length of Edsall Road from S. Pickett Street to the city limits, and Yoakum Parkway between Stevenson Avenue and Edsall Road.
A hit-and-run pursuit led to a crash and driver’s subsequent arrest in the Alexandria section of the Capital Beltway this morning (Thursday), Virginia State Police say.
The crash shut down all southbound I-495 lanes near Van Dorn Street, leading to backups stretching as far as 12 miles, according to an NBC4 report.
A pedestrian was found dead in a hit-and-run crash on Interstate 395 in Alexandria today (Tuesday), according to Virginia State Police.
The crash happened around 6:12 a.m. on northbound Interstate 395 near the Duke Street exit. State troopers had responded to a call about a pedestrian on the interstate and found the person dead in the northbound center lane. The investigation temporarily shut down lanes of the northbound interstate during the early morning commute.
Police are investigating whether a 79-year-old Alexandria man suffered a medical emergency when his Ford Explorer crashed into another vehicle on the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway on Saturday morning (March 14).
David Owens, the driver of the Explorer, was taken to a local hospital and was pronounced dead, according to the Fairfax County Police Department. The crash occurred at around 10:15 a.m. in the area of Mount Vernon Memorial Highway and Grist Mill Woods Way in Mount Vernon.
No injuries were reported after a tractor-trailer overturned on a ramp from Telegraph Road to westbound Interstate 495 this afternoon (Tuesday).
The northbound ramp has now reopened, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation. The single-vehicle incident occurred at around 2:30 p.m., according to Alexandria Police Department radio dispatches. APD previously advised drivers to avoid the area on Facebook just before 4:30 p.m.
