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Authorities have called off the search for the driver of a truck that went off the side of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel

“Please. If there’s anything you took from this, just stop someone. Or if you have done it yourself, stop drinking and driving,” a crushed mother says at a vigil for her son, 23-year-old Ian Tahtinen.

News4’s Darcy Spencer has one mother’s desperate to drivers, in an effort to avoid another tragedy.

This year, deadly crashes in Fairfax County are nearly right on par with last year, despite the fact that fewer people have been on the roads in 2020. Northern Virginia reporter Drew Wilder is showing us a new device that police are using to answer important questions families have when a loved one is involved in a wreck.

The metal of her car — twisted, folded, and crunched — tells you part of this mother’s story. In the days since this deadly car crash on Richmond Highway in Fairfax County, her boss wants the community to know the rest of it. Washielar Nash was driving two of her kids on Dec. 9 when a driver heading the opposite…

After a woman lost her 6-year-old son in a car crash, her boss and community managed to raise $20,000 for her in a GoFundMe account. News4’s Drew Wilder reports on Tuesday Dec. 15, 2020.

A crash between a horse and buggy and a trash truck killed three juveniles and injured four others Monday morning, state police said. The crash happened in Little Britain Township, about 6 miles (about 10 kilometers) south of Quarryville, in Lancaster County, shortly before 8 a.m., according to state police Trooper Kelly Osborne. The buggy driver failed to stop at…

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on a woman charged with shooting at an alleged drunken driver who crashed into her yard.

A driver fatally struck a man in Fairfax County, Virginia, Wednesday night and then drove off, police say. Daniel McKay, 63, of Springfield, was crossing Backlick Road near Edsall Road about 6:30 p.m. when a southbound car struck him, Fairfax County police said. The driver did not stay at the scene. McKay was not in a crosswalk. He was pronounced…

A Prince George’s County police officer driving in Langley Park, Maryland, on Monday struck and killed a pedestrian. Police say the on-duty officer was traveling westbound on University Boulevard at 15th Avenue about 9 p.m. when they hit a man walking. Police said the victim, a man, was in the roadway. It’s unclear whether the man was in the...

A man who was known throughout the D.C. area for his satirical comics was struck and killed by a car in Old Town Alexandria Friday. Justin Benedict, 55, was crossing South Washington Street at the intersection of Wilkes Street about 4 p.m. when a car struck him, police said. Medics took him to a hospital, where he died a short…

A man who was known throughout the D.C. area for his satirical comics was struck and killed by a car in Old Town Alexandria Friday.

President Donald Trump on Sunday suggested the FBI should stop investigating an incident in which his supporters were seen surrounding a Biden campaign bus in Texas, which led Democrats to cancel an event there.

A man riding a bike was hit and killed in Capitol Heights, Maryland, on Tuesday by a D.C. officer with his lights and sirens activated, officials say. The man was crossing the westbound lanes of East Capitol Street near Southern Avenue at about 4:30 p.m. when the SUV hit him, police say. The driver was a D.C. officer who...

The officer was on his way to arrest a murder suspect when the crash happened on the D.C./Maryland line. Cory Smith reports.

D.C. Police are investigating a deadly scooter crash. But the victim’s family says a police officer actually caused the crash. News4’s Pat Collins spoke to the victim’s girlfriend about what the family believes happened.

A young Maryland man who was a musician and singer was killed in a crash on Suitland Parkway over the weekend, but he wasn’t found for days, authorities say. Robert Edward Burwell III, known as “Tre” to family and friends, was driving home to Upper Marlboro Saturday morning when his black Chrysler 300 went off the road and overturned in…

A young Maryland man who was a musician and singer was killed in a crash on Suitland Parkway over the weekend, but he wasn’t found for days, authorities say. News4’s Shomari Stone spoke to his mother.

After their classmate died in a crash on her birthday, students at Colonial Forge High School in Stafford, Virginia, decided they couldn’t sit by and let the same thing happen to someone else. News4’s Pat Collins shows us how they fought to change the system, and save lives.

Two young people are dead after their jeep crashed in Clarksburg, Maryland. News4’s Derrick Ward spoke to one of the victim’s parents about the big plans his daughter had for the future.