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By Rossy Soto, Jasmin Dinh and Jeff Plungis In 2022, Justice High School junior Lesly Diaz-Bonilla was struck and killed as she was leaving the Barcroft View Apartments, on her way to school. Just four years earlier, in the same Fairfax County location, a mother and daughter were injured by a hit-and-run driver. Diaz-Bonilla’s death drew attention to a safety problem that continues to plague a 4-mile stretch of Columbia Pike between Bailey’s Crossroads and Annandale, where poor design and inattentive drivers often put pedestrians at risk. There are proven, low-cost countermeasures that could improve safety, but they haven’t been implemented, despite growing pressure from neighbors who live around…

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By Eliza Tebo March 3, 2026 Connecting a three-block stretch of a leafy Arlington neighborhood near a couple of parks lies an unassuming sidewalk. Other than the young trees alongside it and the caution-yellow curb ramps, there’s nothing remarkable about this patch of pavement—except for the fact it was eight years in the making. Pete Erickson’s vision for it began in 2012 when he moved to Tara-Leeway Heights with his wife, Sabrina, and their two young kids. Though they liked their new home, they were concerned about the lack of sidewalks along their street. In the years that followed, the county opened the new Cardinal…

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By Katie Taranto Published January 8, 2026 at 10:30AM A new report on traffic safety in Northern Virginia is raising concerns about the number of “near miss” incidents in Alexandria, especially those involving children. A total of 155 near miss incidents involving children were reported in Alexandria from January 2024 to December 2025 — more than in any other Northern Virginia locality, according to the report from Northern Virginia Families for Safe Streets (NoVA FSS). Of those incidents, 53 of them occurred at a single intersection in Potomac West. The two-year report aims to “[bring] awareness to the long-standing risks of street safety to children as reported by their parents”…

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by Izam Izzadeen Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments The How Safe Are Our Roads? Report, prepared for the Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP) by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG), reveals that alcohol and drug-impaired traffic fatalities in the region decreased 26 percent between 2023 and 2024 While these fatalities fell from 100 to 74—representing 23.2 percent of the 319 total regional traffic deaths—the report notes that impaired driving-related injuries and crashes both saw increases. Specifically, injuries rose nearly four percent to 1,649, while crashes increased two percent to 3,731. Regional arrests for driving under the influence (DUI) or driving while impaired (DWI) remained…

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When: 10am Sunday, November 16thWhere: Gateway Park in Arlington NoVA FSS is hosting a Northern Virginia World Day of Remembrance (WDoR) for Road Traffic Victims event on Sunday November 16th to… NoVA FSS members, which include family members who have lost a loved one, crash survivors and many concerned citizens, will be joined by, among others, policy makers such as Arlington Board Chair Takis Karantonis, Delegate Partick Hope, Alexandria Police Chief Tarrick McGuire, a senior VDOT representative, and a severely injured crash survivor. We invite the community to help us: The event at Gateway Park will conclude early enough so that those interested can meet…