Student Driver Strikes Ashburn Children, One Victim Critical

Tragic accident in Brambleton impacts two Loudoun families.

UPDATE 9:15 p.m. A student driver receiving lessons from a parent struck three Ashburn girls, ages 7, 8 and 11, around 6:45 p.m. Thursday, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed. A 15-year-old female driver was traveling along Morven Woods Court in Brambleton and receiving a driving lesson from her father, according LCSO spokeswoman Liz Mills, when the vehicle jumped a curb onto the sidewalk and driveway area where the girls were playing. Investigators believe the driver accelerated unintentionally. All three children were taken to local hospitals. The 7-year-old was airlifted to Inova Fairfax Hospital where she is being treated for life-threatening injuries, according to Mills. The two other children were taken to the Lansdowne…

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Driver Veers from Route 7, Strikes School Bus

No students were on the bus; commuter experienced ‘medical emergency.’

A four-vehicle accident in Leesburg during the morning rush Friday involved a Loudoun County School bus. No children were on board. A woman driving her vehicle east on Route 7 suddenly needed to pull over. “The driver had some sort of unknown medical emergency,” said Leesburg Police spokesman Lt. Jeff Dube. It appears that when the driver attempted to pull over, she veered south onto Battlefield Parkway and across the median into northbound lanes, striking two vehicles and a bus, which was waiting at the light. All of the drivers in vehicles the errant vehicle struck were uninjured, Dube said. “There were no kids on the bus at the time,” he said. “She was the only one transported for check out.” Loudoun County Public School spokesman Wayde…

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Driver in Hit and Run Near Stone Bridge Sought

Investigators seek help identifying silver sedan that struck teen near the high school in Ashburn; bystanders may have spoken with driver.

The driver of a small silver sedan struck a 15-year-old boy at the intersection of Claiborne Parkway and Portsmouth Boulevard near Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn and left the scene. The site also is near the Belmont Greene community. The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office has requested assistance in identifying and locating the driver of the car. The incident occurred around 4:15 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15 as the teen attempted to cross Claiborne from the Portsmouth side of the street (Breezyhill Drive is on the other side), according to an LCSO report. The sedan struck the teen within the crosswalk as the driver attempted to turn right onto Claiborne from Portsmouth, according to the report. The vehicle stopped briefly, and the driver …

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Fender Bender Results in DUI Summons

MINI Cooper rear ends a Ford Ranger and leads to charges.

This 2009 MINI Cooper was traveling south on Ashburn Village Boulevard near the intersection of Pipeline Plaza around 2:30 p.m. Jan. 8 when the driver, Robert K. Litts, 48, of Ashburn, rear-ended a 2010 Ford Ranger that was stopped at a traffic signal, according to a report from the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office. Litts was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the Ford Ranger was not injured. Litts was issued a summons for DUI at the hospital. The previous information was supplied by the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office and, where charges were made, does not indicate a conviction. For questions about this article, email dusty@patch.com.

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UPDATE: Dulles Greenway Lanes Reopen

All lanes were shut down during morning rush following accident in the westbound lanes.

UPDATE: All lanes open as of 2:12 p.m. The Dulles Greenway’s westbound lanes from Claiborne Parkway remained closed, and are not expected to reopen until at least 2 p.m. as the Virginia State Police await the removal of 7,000 gallons of diesel fuel from an overturned tanker truck along the Greenway. Eastbound lanes are open. Once the fuel has been transferred to another truck, emergency workers will remove the overturned truck. The Virginia State Police continue to investigate the cause of an accident in which a tanker truck overturned on the Dulles Greenway. The VSP received a call to the Greenway and Exit 5/Claiborne Parkway at 5:27 a.m. because an overturned tanker truck had caught fire. The cleanup area was between the two Sycolin Road…

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Ashburn Crime Report: Aug. 2-9

The following incidents were reported to the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office.

Car Accident A driver plowed into electrical utility boxes near the corner of Loudoun County Parkway and Hamilton Chapel Terrace just after 2:30 p.m. Aug. 6. Witnesses reported that a 1998 Honda Civic traveling southbound in the left lane on Loudoun County Parkway when it gradually drifted into the right lane, onto the shoulder, through wooden barrier and across a median before striking the electrical boxes. Because the incident involved live electricity, the scene took several hours to clean up. The driver, a 22-year-old Sterling man who was not wearing a seatbelt, was airlifted to Inova Fairfax Hospital and listed in critical condition. Suspicious Event An unknown man sitting in a white SUV reportedly took a picture of two children …

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Ashburn Teen Loses His Life in Accident

Alieu Kamara, 19, was pronounced dead on the scene following a serious accident in the 21700 block of Evergreen Mills Road, on Tuesday. This is the second accident in two weeks that has take someone's life in Leesburg.

Another life has been lost due to a serious accident in the 21700 block of Evergreen Mills Road, in Leesburg, on Tuesday, May 8.  Loudoun County deputies responded to the area, just north of the Goose Creek Bridge, shortly after 1 p.m. Ashburn resident Alieu Kamara, 19, was pronounced dead on the scene. Upon investigation, deputies learned that, for unknown reasons, Kamara drove his 2004 Nissan Altima off the right side of the road. The Nissan, which was headed South, struck a parked, disabled 1963 Fabuglas 15-foot boat which was on a single-axle trailer on the highway shoulder with a flat tire.  The Nissan continued to cross the centerline of the highway into the northbound lane, directly into the path of a northbound 2003 Volvo 5-axle …

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Public Safety

Ashburn Village Accident Requires Medevac

A Manassas man was charged in the crash, which also injured an Ashburn woman and her daughter.

Three people were injured in a two-vehicle accident on Ashburn Village Boulevard Tuesday morning, resulting in the use of a medevac for a Manassas man and tying up traffic for 30-45 minutes. A 2006 Dodge work van traveling northbound on Ashburn Village near Cheltenham Circle crossed the median and struck a southbound 2008 minivan head on shortly before 9 a.m. April 24, according to a report from the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office. Ashburn Village Boulevard was closed in both directions as the accident was investigated, those involved were cared for and the scene was cleaned. The van’s driver, Eduardo Acosta Guillen, 32, of Manassas, was taken by helicopter to Inova Fairfax Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. An Ashburn woman, 27…

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UPDATE: Ashburn Man Dies in Fairfax Accident

Fairfax County police provide the identity of the victim as the investigation into the accident continues.

[Updates in italics.] A 56-year-old Ashburn man died March 20 after an accident that occurred along Fairfax County Parkway near Chantilly. Officers with the Fairfax County Police Department responded to reports of a crash along the road near Franklin Farms Road just before 1 p.m. Tuesday. According to a report from the Fair Oaks Police District, the man’s 1999 Toyota Camry left the road for an unknown reason and struck a sound wall. Passersby pulled the man from the vehicle just before it caught fire. The victim was medevaced to a nearby hospital where he died, according to the report. Police later identied the man as Robert Bittner, of Sorrel Grove Court. Speed and alcohol are not considered factors in the crash. Crash Reconstruction Unit…

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Dusty Smith

12:40 pm on Wednesday, March 21, 2012

I believe that was just police jargon for a sound wall.   more ›

'Grenade' Shuts Down Route 28, Deemed Harmless

Personnel from the Loudoun Sheriff's Office, Fire-Rescue, Bomb Squad and Fire Marshal were on the scene.

After a volunteer firefighter who was helping clear the scene of an accident on Route 28 spotted what appeared to be a grenade in one of the vehicles, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office shut down Route 28 for about two hours March 14. Deputies responded to a rear-end collision in the northbound lanes of the road near Route 606 Wednesday evening around 6:25 p.m. As emergency workers began the cleanup, a volunteer member of a Loudoun fire station saw the grenade. The lanes were shut down as a precaution while the LCSO, Loudoun Fire-Rescue, the Loudoun Bomb Squad and the Loudoun Fire Marshal investigated the item, which turned out to be a harmless replica grenade, according to a report from the LCSO. The alert announcing lanes were closed …

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