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Maryland teen driver sideswipes Virginia State Trooper during pursuit in Fairfax County: police
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. – A Virginia State Police trooper and three other people were injured in a crash that occurred during a pursuit involving a teenage driver on Saturday evening in Fairfax County.
Police responded to an occupied vehicle on the left shoulder of I-66 Express Lanes at the 58-mile marker at around 8:59 p.m.
Upon arrival, troopers noticed an individual was acting strangely, as well as the presence of narcotics in the vehicle. A trooper asked the driver to turn off the vehicle multiple times and the driver refused, eventually pulling away from the trooper.
According to police, Virginia State Police then initiated a pursuit.
Troopers again tried to stop the vehicle in the Express Lanes, but both the driver and one of the State Police vehicles lost control in the median. The suspected driver was able to regain control while the trooper ended up in the westbound Express Lanes on I-66, striking a Honda CR-V.
Police say the suspect eventually exited onto Route 50 westbound and turned onto a residential road which had a dead end. The driver, a 17-year-old from Maryland, was then taken into custody after first being checked out at a local hospital. Virginia State Police will be obtaining charges for eluding, driving without a license, reckless driving, and additional charges are pending.
The male driver of the Honda CR-V, a four-year-old passenger, and the trooper involved in the crash were all taken to an area hospital, checked out, and released. A female passenger in the vehicle was kept overnight at the hospital for observation of her non-life-threatening injuries.
Another vehicle in the I-66 westbound Express Lanes suffered damage after striking debris from the crash.
The incident remains under investigation.
The Source: Information from the Virginia State Police Department was used to write this report.
Police said Dequan Gravely, 23, of Charles County, was driving northbound on Route 210 near Pine Drive when his Mercedes collided with the school bus turning left from the southbound lanes.
The driver of a car involved in a crash with a Prince George’s County school bus in Accokeek, Maryland, on Friday has been identified.
Prince George’s County police said Dequan Gravely, 23, of Bryans Road in Charles County, was driving northbound on Route 210 near Pine Drive around 7:20 a.m. when his Mercedes collided with the school bus turning left from the southbound lanes.
Investigators said the crash happened in the intersection, causing the school bus to flip onto its side. Gravely died at the scene.
The school bus driver was transported to a hospital and treated for injuries that were not considered life-threatening. Police said no students were on the bus at the time of the crash.
Investigators said they believe debris from the collision damaged a third vehicle. The driver of that vehicle “declined medical attention,” police said.
The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit is investigating. Anyone with information is asked to contact investigators at 301-731-4422.
WTOP’s Acacia James contributed to this report.
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A D.C. man won $5 million from a scratch-off lottery ticket in Maryland last week, and the matching number that netted him the prize happened to be his age.
Talk about a birthday surprise! A D.C. man won $5 million from a scratch-off lottery ticket in Maryland last week, and the matching number that netted him the prize happened to be his age.
Maurice Williams, a school bus driver in D.C., claimed the first top prize on a $5,000,000 LUXE scratch-off. He had used his $50 winnings from a previous LUXE scratch-off ticket to buy a new one the next day.
In a release from the Maryland Lottery, Williams said he didn’t know he had won until he scanned the ticket: “It’s crazy because the matching number was 59 and I just turned 59 the other day.”
Williams said he sat in shock for a while before calling his mother.
He said he plans to buy his mother a house with the winnings and then save up.
Two more top prizes from the scratch-off have yet to be claimed, the Maryland Lottery said, as well as nine $200,000 prizes, 10 $50,000 prizes and thousands of prizes ranging from $50 to $10,000.
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