The truck has been uprighted. No injuries reported. Traffic getting by on the left shoulder.
4:52 p.m.Â
Crews are now working to lift the overturned truck back onto its wheels.
Fire crews have worked to contain oil that spilled from the truck onto the highway and onto Interstate Drive, which runs parallel to the highway.
Prince William fire crews tell us there was so much oil, a damming operation has been set up on Inn Street, near the main entrance to Quantico Marine Corps Base.
From Prince William fire and rescue:
Units responded for a tractor trailer car hauler overturned wit approximately 15 vehicles. Arriving found a large quantity of oil draining off the interstate towards Inn Street and a waterway. All vehicles, fuel tanks intact with various fluids only coming from the tractor. Â Runoff contained with hand tools and damming operation on Inn Street.
4:28 p.m.
A tractor-trailer hauling automobiles overturned on Interstate 95.
Fire and rescue crews and Virginia State Police were called to the 149 milt post at Quantico when the truck crashed while traveling on I-95 south north.
It’s unclear if anyone is injured. Crews are working mop up oil that was reported to be leaking from the truck.
This past winter, OmniRide was in the middle of a year-long transit study to find out if people would call for a ride and then be taken to an OmniRide local bus stop.
Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, and ridership across all OmniRide bus services plummeted. OmniRide officials are expected to ask for an extension of the study period at the next OmniRide Commissioners meeting, to be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, September 3, at the OmniRide transit center at 14700 Potomac Mills Circle in Woodbridge.
Initially, the study was supposed to end in September.
OmniRide states:
OmniRide introduced a separate paratransit service in the Manassas and Manassas Park areas this [past] winter as part of a one-year pilot project. Paratransit vehicles pick up and drop off passengers within 3/4 mile of the regular western OmniRide Local bus route, the same distance that’s now in place for off-route trips as required by the federal law.
Since the paratransit service began, Manassas and Manassas Park OmniRide Local buses no longer make off-route trips. Eliminating off-route trips improves on-time performance for OmniRide Local buses, because the routing will not vary and extra time won’t be built into the schedule to accommodate off-route trips.
OmniRide planned on analyzing the new local fixed routing and paratransit service this fall. Changes to the fixed-route services may occur this winter. If the pilot project is a success, OmniRide Access may be extended to serve residents in eastern Prince William County as early as 2022.
For those who live in western Prince William County and want to use the service, users must register on the OmniRide website. The transit agency tells us:
Eligible passengers will receive a paratransit OmniRide Access ID card once they complete theeligibility process. Â Paratransit ridesmustbe scheduled in advance once the passengers receives their ID card. OmniRide Access accepts trip reservations for the next service day and no more than 14 days before the time of the trip. OmniRide Access does not accept same-day trip reservations.
Historically, paratransit uses vehicles that are smaller than buses and is meant to provide greater access to public transit services for the elderly and disabled. In Washington, D.C., Metro has offered paratransit service for years, but traditional paratransit they’ve never been offered in Prince William County.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, local bus riders in Prince William County could call OmniRide and schedule a “deviation,” where the bus would travel up to three-quarters of a mile from the regular bus route, generally to someone’s house, to pick up and drop off.
Earlier this year, OmniRide told us that if the system does implement paratransit services permanently, it could cost at least a half-million per year to operate.
A Prince William County resident aims to collect food for the homeless.
From Natan Inlow, of Woodbridge:
I am partnered up with a few officers at the Moose Lodge and the VFW Post 1503 to bring a local food drive to our area. In this crisis food shortages are hitting high marks as many families and children become homeless or have no income for food. I’ve seen the negative effects of this crisis first hand in our neighborhoods. I have lived in this area my entire life and want to start off making changes to our community. I want to create food drives, blood drives, animal adoption days, retirement assistance, environmental programs to NOVA.
Starting small from September 7th to September 12th, I am hosting a quarterly food drive at four locations for drop off. All locations will be open during their regular scheduled hours with no contact enforced.
The Montclair Community Library, Moose Lodge (on Cardinal Drive in Woodbridge), VFW Post 1503 (Dale City) and the Elks Lodge (Dale City). Very local towards the western side of the county, but in the future hoping to branch out more as I develop more contacts and relationships.
ACTS is looking for almost anything non perishables consider the following list:
• Canned beans
• Canned corn
• Canned tuna
• Canned fruit
• Canned tomatoes
• Canned tomato sauce
• Canned soup
• Box mac and cheese
• Brown rice or White Rice
• Peanut butter
• Honey
• Boxed cereal
• Nuts
• Shelf stable milk
• Canned green beans
• Quinoa
• Rolled Oats
The body of a young man was found the back of a van involved in a crash at Occoquan.
From Virginia State Police:
At 2:25 a.m. Thursday (Aug. 27), Virginia State Police responded to a two-vehicle crash in Prince William County. A tractor-trailer had been stopped on the right shoulder of the southbound lanes of I-95 near Exit 160 for Route 123/Occoquan Lake Ridge. As the tractor-trailer began to pull back into the southbound travel lanes, it was struck from behind by a van. The tractor-trailer left the scene and continued southbound on I-95.
Crews continue to search the Rappahannock River for a boater who went missing from the area of the Fredericksburg City Dock on Sunday.
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries tells us:
Two kayaks were launching from the Fredericksburg City Docks around 3-4p yesterday when the current took the boats quickly downstream. One boater went out to try to help the other boater when the boats collided and the man fell overboard. He was able to get back to his kayak but wasn’t able to stay up for long.
A man was injured in a construction accident today in Woodbridge.
Rescue crews were called at 10:30 a.m. to the 13000 block of Lynn Street, next to Fred M. Lynn Middle School in Woodbridge, where a man told 911 operators a piece of metal rebar punctured his leg.
An adult male was taken to a hospital with injuries that do not appear to be life-threatening, a Prince William County fire and rescue spokesman tells us.
We’re keeping a close eye on the approaching remnants of Hurricane Laura.
On Saturday, we should expect showers and thunderstorms in our area. A few of those could contain tornadoes.
From the National Weather Service:
…The risk for a couple of tornadoes should redevelop Saturday afternoon and evening over parts of the mid-Atlantic from Virginia to North Carolina.
Here’s the full forecast:
Tonight
Scattered showers and thunderstorms before 8pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 8pm and 2am, then scattered showers after 2am. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 74. Light and variable wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Saturday
Scattered showers, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 8am. High near 86. Southwest wind 8 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
A slight chance of showers before 2am. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around 67. Southwest wind 6 to 9 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Sunday
Sunny, with a high near 84. Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph.
A man was nearly Stafford outside of a Stafford County hotel.
More in a press release:
ASSAULT -- AUGUST 28, 2020 Affordable Suites of America, 44 Woodstock Lane, 8/26, 6:48 p.m. Hotel guest reported a co-worker staying at the hotel had pulled out a knife and attempted to stab him in the parking lot. The victim was able to avoid the knife and other co-workers responded to assist in keeping the offender away. Deputy R.M. Connelly identified the suspect as Sterling Johnson, 18, of Virginia Beach. Johnson was charged with attempted malicious wounding and held without bond at the Rappahannock Regional Jail
