A car flipped on its roof on eastbound I-66 around the start of Tuesday evening’s rush hour.
The crash happened around 4:15 p.m. in the area of N. Westmoreland Street. The occupants of the vehicle were able to get out and no serious injuries were reported.
Inbound traffic approaching Arlington on I-66 is backing up prior to the accident scene. One travel lane is blocked.
A two-vehicle crash resulted in an SUV flipping on its roof this morning at the intersection of Carlin Springs Road and N. Park Drive, near Ballston.
The accident happened around 11 a.m.
The driver of the Toyota SUV was able to get out of the overturned vehicle before rescuers arrived on scene. No serious injuries were reported.
A second vehicle, a Volkswagen, suffered front end damage.
Police assisted with traffic control while a tow driver used a winch to flip over the SUV and get it on a flatbed. Park Drive was blocked for just over an hour following the wreck.
N. Glebe Road is currently closed between Chain Bridge and N. Military Road due to a single-vehicle rollover crash.
The crash happened around 10 a.m. The driver was able to “self-extricate” from the vehicle, which was flipped on its roof, according to scanner traffic.
Glebe Road is closed while a tow crew works to remove the flipped vehicle and clean debris from the roadway.
The driver’s injuries are believed to be minor.
(Updated at 12:30 p.m.) A crash involving at least two vehicles, including one that rolled over on its roof, closed westbound Route 50 for part of the morning commute.
The crash was reported around 7:30 a.m. at the intersection with Irving Street.
One person had to be extricated from the rolled-over vehicle. That individual, an adult male, was transported to the trauma center at George Washington University Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, said Arlington County Police spokeswoman Ashley Savage.
From the Arlington County police and fire departments, via Twitter:
ACPD and @ACFDPIO are on scene of vehicle accident on Route 50 between Highland St & Irving St. Westbound 50 closed. Expect delays. pic.twitter.com/Kt1HvTpZtA
— ArlingtonCountyPD (@ArlingtonVaPD) December 19, 2016
Units on scene of an accident w/ rollover & entrapment at Route 50 and Irving St. Expect significant delays. pic.twitter.com/Z1Ru234DeM
— Arlington Fire (@ACFDPIO) December 19, 2016
#Update: Patient has been extricated from the vehicle. WB 50 remains shut down at Fillmore St. Follow @ArlingtonVaPD detour.
— Arlington Fire (@ACFDPIO) December 19, 2016
UPDATE: All WB lanes of Route 50 have reopened. https://t.co/oXK0y0Sc7F
— ArlingtonCountyPD (@ArlingtonVaPD) December 19, 2016
Photo courtesy ACPD
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Rollover Crash Last Night — A crash involving an SUV that flipped on its roof was reported near the intersection of Little Falls Road and N. Glebe Road just before 8 p.m. last night. Another crash, involving a person potentially trapped in a vehicle, was reported on Old Dominion Drive just over the border in McLean, around 6 p.m. [Twitter, Twitter]
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(Updated at 3:40 p.m.) Arlington County firefighters and paramedics responded to the scene of a serious accident on I-66 near Glebe Road.
A vehicle somehow overturned on the on-ramp from Glebe to eastbound I-66. Initial reports suggest two people were hurt in the wreck and one has potentially serious injuries.
At least one person was reported to be trapped in the vehicle after the crash, according to the fire department dispatch.
During the emergency response there were significant delays in both directions on I-66. Those delays have since mostly dissipated.
A car overturned on Lee Highway near Rosslyn during this evening’s rush hour.
The crash was reported just past 4 p.m. in the northbound lanes of Lee Highway, approaching Rosslyn, between N. Quinn and Rhodes streets. Traffic was down to one lane on Lee Highway, we’re told.
It’s unclear what caused the crash. No serious injuries were reported. A tow truck is currently on scene.
Photo (top) courtesy Eric LeKuch
(Updated at 11 p.m.) One person is fighting for their life and another suffered significant injuries in a series of two crashes on the George Washington Parkway this morning.
The crash, involving an overturned vehicle, was reported shortly after 11 a.m. in the northbound lanes of the Parkway, near Spout Run. The northbound lanes were closed for about an hour and a half as medics treated the injured and as crews worked to clean up a large amount of debris from the roadway.
Around the same time as the first crash, a second, apparently unrelated crash involving an overturned vehicle was reported on the GW Parkway near Key Bridge.
Two people were transported via ambulance to the hospital, one with critical injuries. Initially the U.S. Park Police Eagle 1 helicopter was requested to medevac that person, but was later called off.
As of 12:40 p.m., one northbound lane had reopened, according to WTOP.
Vehicle overturned: GW Pkwy, S. of Key Bridge: E110, E101 on scene reporting no one trapped, requesting 2 medic units.
— LincolnACFD (@LincolnACFD) October 1, 2016
UPDATE: M104, and M106 will be transporting two patients momentarily. One critical, one moderate. GW Pkwy is still most likely shut down.
— LincolnACFD (@LincolnACFD) October 1, 2016
UPDATE: NB G/W Parkway after Spout Run Parkway, right lane gets by overturned car. #DCtraffic #VaTraffic pic.twitter.com/yKDhVM9dPE
— WTOP Traffic (@WTOPtraffic) October 1, 2016
A car overturned on a residential street in the Arlington Heights neighborhood this afternoon.
The incident happened around 1 p.m. on S. Fenwick Street, between 2nd Street S. and S. Fillmore Street, a few blocks from Thomas Jefferson Middle School.
According to witnesses, “the driver became distracted and rear ended a parked vehicle causing the car to flip.” The driver, we’re told, was able to walk away stunned but otherwise unscathed. Luckily, no one else was reported to be hurt.
A Fenwick Street resident said that neighbors refer to their windy stretch of road as the “raceway.”
“Many vehicles use this street as a cut through and the 25mph speed limit is ignored,” said Zelmira McCann. “As neighbors we’ve been trying to get the [County] Board’s attention about this street in particular. It’s a neighborhood street but people use it like a raceway.”
McCann said she has spent $250 of her own money to put up signs to “remind people that children and pets are at risk.” The signs, she said, have since been stolen.
Photo courtesy Zelmira McCann
A woman in brand new Mercedes-Benz SUV somehow managed to run into several parked cars and flip the SUV just seconds into a test drive.
The incident happened just before 11:30 a.m., at the Mercedes dealership on N. Glebe Road in Ballston.
We’re told that the driver was just beginning a test drive, in the dealership parking lot, and might have mistaken the gas pedal for the brake. She crashed into four vehicles before the SUV rolled onto its side.
Four people who were in the SUV at the time managed to get out before police and firefighters arrived, we’re told. One dealership worker was evaluated by medics for a possible back injury. No one was seriously hurt.
Firefighters freed an individual from an overturned car in Rosslyn yesterday morning.
The incident happened around 10:30 a.m. Sunday. A two-car crash on N. Nash Street, in front of the Turnberry Tower condo building, led to one of the vehicles flipping on its roof.
“It appeared to me that the grey car was pulling out of a parking spot on the east side of N. Nash and it and the black car collided,” said David Mitchell, who witnessed the aftermath of the wreck. “The black car appeared to be going north on N. Nash and the impact of the collision caused the black car to roll over. There did not appear to be any damage to the cars parked on the west side of N. Nash.”
“I did speak to one person who arrived on the scene about the same time as Engine 110,” Mitchell continued. “He reported, ‘the firemen dived right into the car to check on the occupants.’ He was impressed with their actions and the speed at which they worked. I would say that the sole occupant of the black car was extricated within 15 minutes after ACFD’s arrival.”
There were no reports that anyone suffered life-threatening injuries in the crash.
Photos courtesy David J. Mitchell
