ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A volunteer traffic safety group’s study of the most serious pedestrian and bicycle crashes on Route 7 recommends that field reviews begin in two places: Bailey’s Crossroads and Skyline, and an area around Beauregard Street, King Street and Glen Forest that reaches from Fairfax County into Alexandria’s West End.
Northern Virginia Families for Safe Streets analyzed 59 crashes from 2017 through June 2026 in which a pedestrian or bicyclist was killed or seriously injured, using police-reported records from Virginia’s Traffic Records Electronic Data System. Eleven of the crashes were fatal. Ten of the 11 fatal crashes happened in darkness…