Update Tuesday
At 4:36 p.m. Virginia State Police responded to a vehicle fire along Interstate 95 at the 125 mile-marker in Spotsylvania County.
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Traffic
Drivers on Route 17 near Falmouth south should expect overnight delays near Fredericksburg in the coming weeks.
Construction crews will hoist new beams into place at the intersection of the highway and Route 17. The beams will support a new bridge that will carry traffic on I-95 south over Route 17.
I-95 Southbound
I-95 Northbound
Fire and rescue crews were called to crashed a tractor-trailer leaking fuel on Interstate 95.
Stafford County fire and rescue crews rushed to the crash at milepost 137, near the Stafford Regional Airport, just before 2 p.m.
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Construction crews are about to remove a sharp curve in Old Bridge Road, a vital link to Interstate 95.
The curve is at Occoquan Road, and it’s one of the sharpest turns on any six-lane street in the region. The $11.5 million project will realign the highway south of Occoquan Road. Transportation officials hope the improvements work to ease traffic congestion that forms in the street’s elbow, which backs up to Route 123 at Interstate 95.
With the spring season here, drivers should anticipate delays on Interstate 95 northbound and southbound in the Fredericksburg area with Improve 95 program construction in full bloom.
Multiple work zones are scheduled on I-95 this week, including several brief full traffic stops starting tonight, March 22 in Stafford County, north of Exit 133 (Route 17).
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A crash that took the lives of three people started as a police pursuit.
Police tell us the driver of a Dodge Avenger evaded a state trooper that tried to stop the vehicle vehicle near the Massaponax exit in Spostylvania County at 4:33 p.m. Police said the car was traveling at 80 mph in a 65 mph zone on Interstate 95 north.
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Drivers on Interstate 95 south will get some relief at the Occoquan River.
A new fourth lane will be built at one of the biggest bottlenecks in the region, where four lanes of traffic condense into three at the Purple Heart Bridge. The nearly three-mile lane will cost $14.6 million to construct and will run from Route 123 to the Prince William County Parkway.
Police in Virginia are warning about the dangers of drunken driving this St. Patrick’s Day.
Police said March 17 is becoming one of the year’s most dangerous times to be on the road. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), during the 2019 St. Patrick’s Day weekend alone (6 p.m. March 16 to 5:59 a.m. March 18), more than three out of five (63%) traffic crash-related fatalities involved a drunk driver. In fact, from 2015 to 2019, a total of 280 lives were lost in drunk-driving crashes during the St. Patrick’s Day period nationwide.
On Thursday, March 11 at 6:05 p.m., police in Prince William County were called to the scene of a motorcycle crash in the area of the Prince William Pkwy and Hynson Drive near Manassas.
The investigation revealed that the operator of a 2020 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle was traveling east on the Prince William Pkwy, approaching Hynson Dr, when the operator lost control and ran off the left side of the roadway into the center median.