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State Police Investigating Accident, Teen Driver’s Flight
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McGruff
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Date: September 30, 2011 09:15AM
State Police Investigating Accident, Teen Driver’s Flight
http://www.leesburg2day.com/news/article_bea7246c-eaaf-11e0-8604-001cc4c03286.html
Virginia State Police today are working to determine the circumstances surrounding an accident that occurred late last night on westbound Rt. 7.
According to 1st Sergeant Alvin Blankenship, commander of the Loudoun area office, state police officers were called to the scene on Rt. 7 west of Lexington Drive for report of an auto accident. A teenage driver apparently hit the back of a large piece of paving equipment that was working along the road around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Before officers arrived on scene, the girl, whose name has not been released because she is younger than 18, fled from her car and into the woods on the north side of Rt. 7. Officers were able to determine the girl's identity through the course of the investigation, even reaching her on her cell phone, but have not been able to locate her. When state police spoke to the teenager she refused to talk to police. Blankenship said they do not know yet what caused the teenager to flee the scene, or any other circumstances surrounding the accident. It is not clear where she went when she fled, or how she got there.
"At this point we have not sat down and talked with her," he said. "We're still a bit in the dark on this one."
Blankenship said officers are trying to work through her parents and hope to be able to sit down with the girl sometime today.
The paving equipment was active at the time of the accident, and three Virginia Department of Transportation employees were sent to Inova Loudoun Hospital for treatment of minor injuries. They have all since been released.
The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office was called in to help locate the teenager, including bringing in a helicopter for an aerial search. Drivers along Rt. 7 last night faced slow traffic as more than a half dozen officers and deputies assisted at the scene. Patrol cars could be seen along Rt. 7 and back along Lexington Drive into the Lexington Seven property as law enforcement officers searched the woods.
http://www.leesburg2day.com/news/article_bea7246c-eaaf-11e0-8604-001cc4c03286.html
Virginia State Police today are working to determine the circumstances surrounding an accident that occurred late last night on westbound Rt. 7.
According to 1st Sergeant Alvin Blankenship, commander of the Loudoun area office, state police officers were called to the scene on Rt. 7 west of Lexington Drive for report of an auto accident. A teenage driver apparently hit the back of a large piece of paving equipment that was working along the road around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Before officers arrived on scene, the girl, whose name has not been released because she is younger than 18, fled from her car and into the woods on the north side of Rt. 7. Officers were able to determine the girl's identity through the course of the investigation, even reaching her on her cell phone, but have not been able to locate her. When state police spoke to the teenager she refused to talk to police. Blankenship said they do not know yet what caused the teenager to flee the scene, or any other circumstances surrounding the accident. It is not clear where she went when she fled, or how she got there.
"At this point we have not sat down and talked with her," he said. "We're still a bit in the dark on this one."
Blankenship said officers are trying to work through her parents and hope to be able to sit down with the girl sometime today.
The paving equipment was active at the time of the accident, and three Virginia Department of Transportation employees were sent to Inova Loudoun Hospital for treatment of minor injuries. They have all since been released.
The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office was called in to help locate the teenager, including bringing in a helicopter for an aerial search. Drivers along Rt. 7 last night faced slow traffic as more than a half dozen officers and deputies assisted at the scene. Patrol cars could be seen along Rt. 7 and back along Lexington Drive into the Lexington Seven property as law enforcement officers searched the woods.
Re: State Police Investigating Accident, Teen Driver’s Flight
Posted by:
hubba bubba
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Date: October 06, 2011 12:39PM
D is right.....obviously had something on board---be it alcohol or drugs. Nice of her parents to interfere with the investigation instead of making her face the consequences of her actions. Glad to hear the workers were okay.