NOON WEDNESDAY UPDATE
Police identified the second victim in a series of two separate fatal crashes on I-95 in Dale City as a Stafford man.
Kevin L. Mullins, 36, of Stafford, was killed at 7:47 a.m. when he was behind the wheel of a Econoline Van that slammed into the back of a 2003 Dodge Ram pickup. The force of that collision pushed the pickup into the rear of a Kia sedan, said Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller. Both the pickup and sedan had already stopped prior to the impact because of heavy traffic conditions on I-95.
Mullins died at the scene, and police said he was not wearing a seatbelt and that alcohol was not a factor in the crash. The case is still under investigation.
TUESDAY NIGHT UPDATE
The driver of a van involved in a Monday morning crash that killed one and injured two others is charged with reckless driving.
The 2006 Ford Econoline van, carrying nine passengers from Gaithersburg, Md. to Richmond on Interstate 95, crashed about 4:30 a.m. just south of Dale Boulevard. The driver lost control of the van when it ran off the side of the highway, hit a guardrail and overturned two times coming to rest on its side, said Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller.
Three passengers were ejected from the van, when 43-year-old Marciso A. Campos, of Alexandria, was killed instantly. Another two who were injured were taken to Fairfax Inova Hospital with injuries that did not appear to be life threatening, while the remaining occupants of the van were treated at Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center in Woodbridge.
The driver, 28-year-old J. Diaz-Lemus, of Gaithersburg is charged with reckless driving, said Geller. Police said he was wearing a seatbelt but was traveling too fast for road conditions at the time, when road surfaces were wet.
Police have still yet to release information on the victim of a separate crash that happened about 7:45 a.m. on the northbound side of I-95 that took the life of an unidentified occupant of a vehicle involved in the crash.
ORIGINAL POST 9:38 a.m.
DALE CITY, Va. — Two people were killed this morning in two separate car crashes on Interstate 95.
At 7:45 a.m., a multi-vehicle crash on northbound I-95 in Dale City just south of mile post 156, Dale Boulevard, took the life on one unidentified person. Police are rescue crews remain on the scene of the crash, and more details from Virginia State Police are expected soon.
The crash appears to have involved a pickup, sedan, and work van that sustained heavy damage.
Earlier at 4:31 a.m., a crash on southbound I-95 at mile post 154, just south of Dale Boulevard, involved a 2006 Econoline van that lost control and then ran off the highway into a guardrail and overturned at least two times, said Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller.
Two occupants were ejected, and both were taken to a local hospital where one died, said Geller. Another occupant of the van was taken to Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center in Woodbridge and their condition has not been released.
