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.
Traffic is backed up on westbound Interstate 495 near Eisenhower Avenue as authorities respond to the scene of a tractor-trailer crash near the Alexandria-Fairfax County border.
The crash occurred when the driver of a tractor-trailer in the right lane “lost control, jack-knifed, and struck an SUV” on westbound I-495 around 4:08 p.m., according to Virginia State Police.
A Virginia State Police (VSP) trooper was injured in a Sunday crash on Interstate 495 in Alexandria after attempting to stop a motorist for reckless driving.
The trooper went off the road to avoid striking a third, uninvolved vehicle, striking a tree and rolling over once, according to VSP.
Two people suffered non-life-threatening injuries in a three-vehicle crash near the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in Alexandria on Friday, July 4.
The crash was reported at around 11:45 a.m. on the northbound through lanes of Interstate 95 just before the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. Two people in a silver Nissan were injured, and one person had to be extricated from that vehicle, according to dispatch reports.
Good news if you’re traveling in and around Alexandria for the upcoming July 4 weekend.
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) just announced that it will suspend many highway work zones and lift temporary lane closures on interstates and major roads from 12 p.m. on Thursday, July 3, to 12 p.m. on Monday, July 7.
Alexandria Mayor Alyia Gaskins and city staff are asking that the Virginia Department of Transportation delay approval of a preferred alternative on a plan to add express lanes from the Springfield Interchange across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge.
In an April letter to VDOT, Gaskins wrote that the project will bring “Alexandria substantial consequences” to our local neighborhoods, and asked that an alternative not be chosen until a noise, traffic, and air safety analysis is conducted. VDOT and the Commonwealth Transportation Board, in the meantime, have set a timeline for the project.
Plans to add two express lanes from the Springfield Interchange to the Woodrow Wilson Bridge will be discussed in a public hearing next week in Alexandria.
The Virginia Department of Transportation is holding four public hearings starting this week, the last of which will talk about the controversial 11-mile project at the Nannie J. Lee Memorial Recreation Center on Wednesday, June 11. VDOT has been evaluating the project for three years, and groups say that it will create traffic bottlenecks if implemented.
Lauren Johnson-Lavender, a nurse from Mashpee, Massachusetts, died at the scene after the car she was traveling in, a Lexus SUV, was rear-ended by a Dodge Ram at around 5:35 p.m., according to VSP. The Lexus was stopped in traffic, and once hit by the Ram created a domino effect and it then rear-ended a Ford F-150.
VSP said that the Dodge Ram went “airborne.”
Virginia State Police have identified the motorcyclist who died after a crash on Interstate 495 in Alexandria on Saturday afternoon as 20-year-old Michael A. Dart of Washington, D.C.
The crash occurred just before 2 p.m. in the local lanes of I-495 westbound near the Telegraph Road exit at mile marker 177, according to VSP.
A proposal to add express lanes to the Woodrow Wilson Bridge is getting some pushback from the Coalition for Smarter Growth, which argued VDOT’s toll lane could take Metrorail’s right of way.
The Coalition says that, if enacted, the Virginia Department of Transportation’s 495 Southside Study will create traffic bottlenecks. They’re asking locals to voice their displeasure by emailing public officials, and say that the express lanes will not improve general traffic on the bridge and that more cars will avoid the bridge and spill onto local roadways.
The Alexandria Police Department urged drivers to slow down after saying a driver was issued a ticket earlier this week for going 112 miles per hour in a 55 mph speed zone.
Police said an Alexandria Police Department officer was on his way to work on Wednesday when he issued a citation for the driver going over twice the legal limit at Van Dorn Street and I-495.
