"We're people, too," Rainer said. "We're not objects in the road, we're not obstacles that you need to hurry up and get around. We're human beings. We have families who care about us, too."
A new report from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) found a “startling increase” in the number of pedestrian fatalities in Northern Virginia last year. Along with the increase in pedestrian fatalities, DMV found a smaller increase in overall traffic-related fatalities in the region. “In 2022, 56 pedestrians were killed as a result of
Even with one month left, 2022 is the deadliest year for Fairfax County pedestrians in more than a decade. Through October, vehicle crashes have killed 22 people on streets and highways in the county the most since at least 2010, the earliest year in Virginia’s Traffic Records Electronic Data System (TREDS). The previous high