The Prince William County Department of Transportation will hold a virtual information session on the Route 28 Bypass Project.
During this Transportation Tuesday session on May 17 at noon, officials will provide updates on the Route 28 Bypass Project and the progress of Fairfax County’s ongoing Route 28 Widening Project.
An emergency maintenance repair is underway to address erosion along the shoulder of Interstate 95 southbound in Fredericksburg at mile marker 131, requiring an extended lane closure in the area.
VDOT says the erosion is “severe.”
While road crews changed their plans for tonight’s highway work, detours are still planned for tomorrow night as crews work to extend E-ZPass toll lanes to Fredericksburg.
Crews will lift and install new bridge beams for the future flyover at exit 148 at Quantico interchange in Stafford County. The work means all northbound drivers will be detoured a near exit 143, Garrisonville Road, onto the Express Lanes between 10:30 p.m. to 4 a.m. Tolls will not apply to drivers routed onto the Express Lanes.
A motorcyclist succumbed to his injuries after he was involved in a crash.
On Tuesday, May 3 at 1:44 p.m., rescue crews were dispatched to the report of a motorcycle crash on Courthouse Road at Interstate 95. The single rider was ejected from the motorcycle during the crash and it does not appear any other vehicles were involved in the crash.
A driver submitted this video to our tip line ([email protected]) showing a near collision on Mountain View Road, near Shelton Shop Road, after 6 p.m. Sunday, May 8.
According to the driver who submitted the video, an oncoming car lost control of his sedan on the two-lane road, drove into a ditch, overcorrected, and crossed into oncoming traffic.
Initially, first responders thought a pedestrian had been struck, but it wasn’t long before they learned a man had been ejected from a car. The unidentified man was taken to Mary Washington Hospital, where he was expected to survive, said Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller.
There were no other cars involved, and it’s unclear what led to the crash. The incident remains under investigation, police said.
A man was flown by helicopter to Fairfax Inova Hospital after being struck by a car near Manassas.
According to initial information, the pedestrian was walking in the area of Sudley and Sudley Manor roads at about 9:30 p.m. Thursday, May 6, when he was struck by a car going 45 mph.
The crash occurred at about 4:50 p.m. at Hoadly Road and Galveston Court, near a Harris Teeter grocery store. One of the victims was taken to Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center in Woodbridge, and the other UVA Prince William Medical Center in Manassas.
According to initial reports, the victims suffered serious injuries. What led to the crash is unknown.
A Stafford woman was killed in a crash in Alexandria.
Virginia State Police reported today, at 1:43 a.m. on Sunday, May 1, troopers went to a crash on northbound Interstate 395 just south of King Street in Alexandria.
Transurban, operator of E-ZPass Express Lanes on Interstates 495, 95, and 395, on Monday, May 2, announced a revised opening date of late 2023 for the Fredericksburg extension of the I-95 E-ZPass Express Lanes from North Stafford south to the Rappahannock River, known internally the as Fred Ex project.
Supply chain issues and Potomac Formation soils (Light-gray to pinkish- and greenish-gray quartzo-feldspathic sand found in Virginia from Fairfax to Richmond) have caused problems for construction crews.
