Pedestrian killed in a hit-and-run crash in Seven Corners
A pedestrian was struck and killed in a hit-and-run crash shortly before 1:30 a.m. on May 26 at the intersection of Arlington Boulevard and Patrick Henry Drive in Seven Corners, the Fairfax County Police Department reports.
Preliminarily, detectives from the Crash Reconstruction Unit determined that an adult male was crossing Arlington Boulevard from north to south within the crosswalk but against the pedestrian signal when he was struck by a light-colored sedan traveling eastbound. The driver fled the scene.
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department personnel transported the pedestrian to a hospital, where he was pronounced deceased. His name is being withheld pending notification to next of kin.
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Detectives are working on identifying the driver and determining whether speed and alcohol were involved.
Anyone with information about this crash is urged to call the Crash Reconstruction Unit at 703-280-0543. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through Crime Solvers.
Fairfax County really needs to fix its pedestrian infrastructure. VDOT seems ambivalent to doing pedestrian improvements in a timely manner, and Fairfax County is illequipped to handle the broad scale changes that need to happen.
This is more of a human behavior problem than an infrastructure problem.
Every single one of these tragedies involved a pedestrian breaking the law.
If you don’t jaywalk or “cross against the pedestrian signal” at 1:30 a.m., you have virtually nothing to worry about.
I completely agree. I only wish a better percentage of our state tax dollars made it’s way back to solve NoVa problems. We are an urban-suburban county and still built like we are a bedroom community.
Getting pedestrians around safer would promote a more environmentally friendly and safer community. My biggest talk with my children when they came of age to venture out alone wasn’t as focused on stranger danger as much as it was car danger, the much larger threat. (I am near FCHS .25 miles from 50). I want to hand out door store lights to the folks on bikes at night too.
Perhaps it is time to pay a visit to our county board but also the state, I hate the restaurant tax, so not fair to keep forcing us to make up for money that should come from the Commonwealth.
I also see so so very many ” distracted ” drivers . They are on their phones , computers – it’s so obvious sometimes sitting in the middle of the road when a light has changed or totally running red lights all together . Granted , also pedestrians also guilty of this . Many with headphones, texting while crossing roads have walked right out in front of me never looking to see if a car is coming. Thankfully I give myself some leeway to stop . But is it really that important that you risk your life or the life of others for a phone call? Back before these phones we had to wait till we got home or found the nearest pay phone. We did just fine .
Not a county problem. Crossing against the light at 1:30am is a prescription for disaster.
It is definitely a problem if a driver is speeding, under the influence, runs over a person and away. But I see what you’re doing when you blame the victim.
In this area, I’m a driver afraid of pedestrians and a pedestrian very wary of vehicles.
Walking a dog with your face on your phone, crossing an intersection without looking up–much less left-right-left? You didn’t hear my quiet car approaching; I’m glad I saw you.
Driving through a busy parking lot, coasting past the stop sign as I am walking exactly in THE MIDDLE of the pedestrian crossing in broad daylight, no one else around, and looking you IN THE EYE but you still refuse to stop until I could have smacked your fat-a**-jacked-up truck al la Midnight Cowboy? Oh, yes, I see exactly who and what you are.
Some people are beyond hope.