Man Struck by Vehicle on I-395 on Tuesday

VDOT employee hit by car while assisting in different crash

By Maddi Pariser • •

A worker with the Virginia Department of Transportation -- who was helping a driver who had been in a crash -- suffered life-threatening injuries Tuesday after he was hit by another car. 

Mike Musgrove, a VDOT safety services patrol supervisor, was hit while he helped a state trooper by directing oncoming traffic, according to police.

The second accident happened less than 20 minutes after the first. A 2005 Toyota Matrix traveling south on I-395 lost control and ran through traffic cones and flares set up as a perimeter around the first accident, police said.
 
The Matrix struck Musgrove, who was standing next to his safety services patrol vehicle, and then hit the safety truck and guardrail, police said. Musgrove's emergency lights were on at the time of the crash, according to police.
 
The crashes happened in the right southbound lane of I-395 less than a mile south of the Ridge Road overpass.

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Musgrove was transported to George Washington University Hospital, where he is being treated for life-threatening injuries.

The driver of the Matrix, Charles R. Hepburn II, was not injured and has been charged with reckless driving, according to police.

No one from the initial crash was injured. Both traffic accidents remain under investigation.

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