A driver is dead and their passenger is seriously hurt after their car crashed into a jersey wall and caught fire on Interstate-95 in Fairfax County, Virginia, on Monday morning, state police tell WTOP.
One person is dead and another seriously hurt after a car crashed into a Jersey wall and caught fire on Interstate 95 in Fairfax County, Virginia, early Monday morning.
The three-car crash happened on I-95 south at the 169-mile marker in Springfield shortly after 3:30 a.m. Police said the impact of that collision caused one car to hit the Jersey wall.
A good Samaritan pulled the passenger out of the burning vehicle.
The driver died; the passenger was taken to INOVA Fairfax Hospital with serious injuries.
The people in the other two cars were not seriously hurt, police said.
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