By Julie Carey, NBC Washington
Published December 6, 2024
The teen’s death becomes the 20th pedestrian or cyclist fatality in Fairfax County so far this year, double the number killed last year.
“The numbers are going in the wrong direction,” said Chris French from Fairfax Families for Safe Streets.
Pedestrian- and bicyclist-involved crashes steadily increased in the county each year from 2020, French said.
There have been 211 pedestrian-involved crashes leading to injury in Fairfax County this year, French said. That’s down from last year’s count of 237 and up from 134 in 2020.
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