There are two copters perched over 29, around Forum Drive for the last 30 minutes and an S-Load of county cops, unmarked, marked, SUV, motorcycles. They have 29 West blocked off from Wegmans until Forum Drive. Two cars are in the road about 500 feet away from each other.

Something big is going on...

Went through there about an hour ago and couldn't see what happened but
just saw it on Channel 5 news. An SUV lost control and ran up into a
bike path. A 14 year old boy on a bicycle was killed as was the driver
of the SUV. Sad.

Apparently a tandem bike and a second party was taken to the hospital.

A tandem bike was taken to the hospital?

OBAMACARE!!!!!!!

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Fox5DC

Two Killed in Collision Between Van and Bicycle in Fairfax

Updated: Friday, 21 May 2010, 5:32 PM EDT
Published : Friday, 21 May 2010, 5:25 PM EDT

By myfoxdc staff

FAIRFAX, Va. - Two people were pronounced dead at the scene after a collision between a van and a tandem bicycle at the intersection of Lee Highway and Forum Drive in Fairfax.

The driver of the van and a male on the bicycle were the two fatalities. The second person on the bicycle has been transported to the hospital. Her condition is unknown.

Stay with MYFOXDC and FOX 5 as more information comes into the newsroom.

weird how a van collides with a bicycle and dies on the process?

I'd say either the bicylcist went through the windshield or the van driver was already having a medical emergency and was either dead or just about dead when he struck the bike.

I mean, c'mon...a tandem isn't exactly hard to spot.



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robonscanner Wrote:
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> weird how a van collides with a bicycle and dies
> on the process?


at what point did the van die?

This literally happened at my back door.

The "van" was actually an SUV -- Ford Explorer. If someone was killed on the bike path they were likely my neighbors.

The boy on the bike was a senior at fairfax high school and he was riding bikes with his girlfriend when an SUV ran totally through the intersection and up onto the bike path hit my friend and then a tree

robonscanner Wrote:
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> weird how a van collides with a bicycle and dies
> on the process?

English isn't your first language, is it?

Looks like one victim was Abdul something. A bunch of people on the fox 5 site are saying one of the victims was "Abdul" from Fairfax high school.

Abdul Chadli from Fairfax High, yeah...He was my friend..but now I guess he's in a better place...RIP....

mmm.. somebody whispers what happened in the first person's ear and that person passes it along to the next... funny how jacked the story gets as it goes along...

I grabbed this (below) from WUSA... so was he 14 or 17? was it a Van, or a Ford Explorer, or a Dodge Durango... no matter what, all agree that 2 folks passed away unfortunately...



FAIRFAX, Va. (WUSA) -- A 17-year-old boy on a bicycle was killed and the driver of an SUV that struck him also died in an accident in Fair Oaks on Friday, Fairfax County County Police said.

Police said that shortly after 4 p.m., a Dodge Durango driven by a 31-year-old Manassas man was northbound on Lee Highway just prior to Forum Drive. The SUV crossed the center median and traveled diagonally to the left, crossing all lanes of Forum Drive and entering a bike path parallel to the highway.

The boy, from Fairfax, was about to enter the bike path when he was struck from behind by the SUV. The vehicle then struck a tree adjacent to the path.

The bicyclist and the driver were pronounced dead at the scene.

Crash reconstruction detectives are investigating the cause of the crash.

Police are asking anyone who might have witnessed the crash to call the Fairfax County Police Department at 703-691-2131.

So many fairfax cyclist, so little time.

My condolences, Melissa & Friend.



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What rotten luck to hit a biker in all that space. Maybe an intentional suicide?

Melissa farley Wrote:
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> The boy on the bike was a senior at fairfax high
> school and he was riding bikes with his girlfriend
> when an SUV ran totally through the intersection
> and up onto the bike path hit my friend and then a
> tree


Just watched the video on Fox. Melissa I think you may be mistaken. It said the girl was 14 years old. Very odd a senior with a 14 year old girl friend.

Who is the girlfriend and was she with him, is she okay?

The guy driving the Durango's name was James Fowler.

Is the girl involved okay? Was she also a senior getting ready to graduate?

the two people are my friends. the girl is fine. she managed to jump away before the car hit, but it swiped her shoulder. she was walking and abdul was riding his bike. abdul is a senior and the girl is a sophomore. dont listen to the news they are always wrong

Well even a Senior and Sophmore is a little odd for high school. According to the news report though the girl is fine.

Arrest/Ticket info on the driver:

THORNE, GARY, A MANASSAS PRK, VA "11/15/2006","DRIVE-OL RVKD/SUSP

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> Arrest/Ticket info on the driver:
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> THORNE, GARY, A MANASSAS PRK, VA
> "11/15/2006","DRIVE-OL RVKD/SUSP

What does Gary Thorne, ESPN analyst, have to do with this?

who dis? Wrote:
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> Deal Sheets Wrote:
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> > Arrest/Ticket info on the driver:
> >
> > THORNE, GARY, A MANASSAS PRK, VA
> > "11/15/2006","DRIVE-OL RVKD/SUSP
>
> What does Gary Thorne, ESPN analyst, have to do
> with this?

uh, the person driving the SUV.

it's not uncommon for seniors to date underclassmen.
abdul was an amazing person. he had absoulty no responsibility for what happened.
he was 17.
the girl, emma, is 15. she is a sophmore at fairfax. she went to fair oaks hospital but only recieved minor injuries. they never took abdul or the driver to the hospital.
RIP abdul

how is that odd? that was his girlfriend. it was so sad because we always saw them walking together at school in the morning.

I would like to sent prays out to the family of the youngman that was hit on the bike my heart comes out to you. I am a family member of Gary and I dont know what happen but Gary was a good guy and never hurt any one. I can't fugure it out. But I have to put it in God's hands. I WILL FOREVER MISS YOU Gary and to the family of the victums once again sorry for you lost.

I would like to sent prays out to the family of the youngman that was hit on the bike my heart comes out to you. I am a family member of Gary and I dont know what happen but Gary was a good guy and never WOULD HAVE hurt any one. I can't fugure it out. But I have to put it in God's hands. I WILL FOREVER MISS YOU Gary and to the family of the victums once again sorry for you lost.

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well Steve I known that Gary would have never think about suicide. ppl should think about the thing they say before they say it. Everything happen fora reason we dont know why

Fairfax cyclist and SUV driver identified
Gary Anthony Thorne, 31, of Blue Gray Circle in Manassas, was the driver of an SUV that veered across Lee Highway Friday and hit and killed bicyclist Abdelouahid Chadli, 18, of Morrison Way in Fairfax.

Fairfax police spokeswoman Mary Ann Jennings identified both victims Saturday and said police still do not know what caused Thorne's SUV to go out of control and onto the bike path. Thorne died after his vehicle hit a tree with such force that it took police hours to remove him from the crash scene.

Jennings said she did not know the identity of another cyclist injured slighlty in the accident or whether that person was related to Chadli.

The accident happened just after 4 p.m. at Lee Highway and Forum Drive, according to police and occurred on Bike to Work Day.
Jennings, the department's head spokeswoman, has said the driver apparently veered across six lanes of Lee Highway before jumping the Forum Drive curb.

Chadli, who went by the nickname Abdul, lived in a townhouse on a street where other Northern African immigrants live. At the boy's home, dozens of shoes were lined up neatly at the entrance as mourners, many from the family's mosque, the Islamic Center for Northern Virginia on Shirley Gate Road, visited the grieving family. In the second floor apartment, women, their heads covered in flowing robes, consoled the boy's mother, Samira. But none would comment until the boy's father returned from the burial.

"Everybody loved him. He was very funny, very popular," said the teenager's father, Mohammed Chadli, 58, who runs deliveries for UPS. Chadli said his son, the eldest of four sons, was a dedicated athlete who was always biking or working out in the gym. Abdel was a member of the Fairfax High School wrestling squad and also liked to swim. He had just received a package of high school graduation cards and was eager to mail them to family scattered around the U.S. He had been accepted at GMU and wanted to become a veterinarian, his father said.

In a similar development a few miles away in Manassas, Thorne's stepfather, Kevin Griffin, 45, a warehouse worker, said Gary A. Thorne's family was mystified about the accident. Griffin said Thorne had no known medical condition that night have caused him to black out or lose control of the Dodge Durango, which he had owned without complaint for about a year. Griffin said Thorne drove his younger sister, Crystal, to work at a Checkers about 11:30 a.m. and no one heard anything from or about him until police arrived about 10 p.m. to notify them of the accident. Although Thorne had been laid off from his job as a forklift operator at a warehouse in Chantilly in April, he had leads on a new job and was planning to celebrate his 32nd birthday at a cookout Sunday at his father's in Mt. Airy.

Thorne leaves behind a 10-year-old daughter.

Abdul's Friend Wrote:
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> it's not uncommon for seniors to date
> underclassmen.
> abdul was an amazing person. he had absoulty no
> responsibility for what happened.
> he was 17.
> the girl, emma, is 15. she is a sophmore at
> fairfax. she went to fair oaks hospital but only
> recieved minor injuries. they never took abdul or
> the driver to the hospital.
> RIP abdul

OH MY GOD WHO CARES!

zoom Wrote:
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> who dis? Wrote:
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> > > Arrest/Ticket info on the driver:
> > >
> > > THORNE, GARY, A MANASSAS PRK, VA
> > > "11/15/2006","DRIVE-OL RVKD/SUSP
> >
> > What does Gary Thorne, ESPN analyst, have to do
> > with this?
>
> uh, the person driving the SUV.

Then what does James Fowler have to do with this?

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> Fairfax police spokeswoman Mary Ann Jennings
> identified both victims Saturday and said police
> still do not know what caused Thorne's SUV to go
> out of control and onto the bike path. Thorne died
> after his vehicle hit a tree with such force that
> it took police hours to remove him from the crash
> scene.

4 hours? What about the fire department? They could probably extricate the victim much faster than the police since the have access to a wider variety of tools. Station 21, with a heavy rescue squad is not too far away and even Station 40 down the street should have equipment.

I didnt know abdul but his brother goes to my school even though i barely talk to him i feel really sad about what happened Abdul and his family are in my prayers. Stay strong
hope u feel better moundir

TomMadison Wrote:
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> wash post 2010 Wrote:
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> > Fairfax police spokeswoman Mary Ann Jennings
> > identified both victims Saturday and said
> police
> > still do not know what caused Thorne's SUV to
> go
> > out of control and onto the bike path. Thorne
> died
> > after his vehicle hit a tree with such force
> that
> > it took police hours to remove him from the
> crash
> > scene.
>
> 4 hours? What about the fire department? They
> could probably extricate the victim much faster
> than the police since the have access to a wider
> variety of tools. Station 21, with a heavy rescue
> squad is not too far away and even Station 40 down
> the street should have equipment.

I'm going to go out on a limb (lol) and say that's probably a misquote by the reporter. There's no way the police have the capabilities for that.

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> 4 hours? What about the fire department? They
> could probably extricate the victim much faster
> than the police since the have access to a wider
> variety of tools. Station 21, with a heavy rescue
> squad is not too far away and even Station 40 down
> the street should have equipment.


I'm sure they used whatever tools were necessary to get the guy out. Sounds like he hit the tree at full speed. Makes you wonder if he had a seizure or something.

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I saw the helicopter from the Costco parking lot. I was wondering what was going on.

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> Everything happen fora reason we dont know why


If you're talking about cause and effect, then yes, I suppose that's so. Your point?

If instead what you mean is that there's some higher power directing events: Simple-minded nonsense. And do yourself a favor, never even think of instructing a parent who's lost a child that it happened "for a reason."

Does it really matter if a senior had feelings for an underclassmen and vice versa? its only 2 yr apart as well, so it's not a biggy. Abdul was such a great guy. Always saw him in the hallways with Emma together everymorning. im going to miss youu Abdul:( RIP<3 Moundir and Emma i love you guys as well and stay strong!

TomMadison Wrote:
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> 4 hours? What about the fire department? They
> could probably extricate the victim much faster
> than the police since the have access to a wider
> variety of tools. Station 21, with a heavy rescue
> squad is not too far away and even Station 40 down
> the street should have equipment.


I read a few weeks ago that a school bus hit a tree in Mclean and it took 2 hours to cut the driver out, and he was alive.

I think they just want to fuck up traffic as long as possible.

This is the true story. I know because i know both of the bicyclists and i live less than a minute from where it happened. The guy is Abdul, a senior at Fairfax High School. The media are idiots. He's 18 and a wrestling star. His girlfriend and my close friend, Emma is a sophmore at Fairfax High School and 15. Something happened to the driver of the SUV and he veered over 6 lanes of traffic, across the media and up a steep hill onto the bike path before finally hitting a tree. He's dead. My friends were in the wrong place at a horrible time. Of all the things to hit, another car, another tree, he hit them. Abdul is now dead. This is the 3rd death at Farifax High this year. We're all feeling a terrible loss, even those of us who didn't know Abdul very well. What we do all know is that he was an amazing person who could've gone on to do amazing things, but his life was taken. This is a tragic incident and i'd like to ask you all to take a moment and send your prayers out to Abdul's friends and family and hope he rests in peace. RIP man, this shouldn't have happened.

3 deaths? How did those pass by the Underground?

Very sad story though, don't take any small moments for granted.

Just under Virginia law isn't 18 and 15 statuatory rape in most states including va?

Posted by: Steve K ()
Date: May 23, 2010 11:58PM

3 deaths? How did those pass by the Underground?

Very sad story though, don't take any small moments for granted.

Just under Virginia law isn't 18 and 15 statuatory rape in most states including va?
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umm--it's only statutory rape if there are complaints about it. if there haven't been any complaints on Emma's part about this "satuatory rape" then clearly no. how about you drop the whole senior and sophomore dating bit...cause it's moderately offensive to the girl having just lost him. they were dating. no biggie. rip abdul 119forever. miss you bud.

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