FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) — New concerns are being raised about safety along Richmond Highway in Fairfax County, where advocates say the busy corridor is becoming increasingly deadly and needs immediate action from local and state leaders.
“We call these crashes. We don’t call them accidents because accidents infer it was unavoidable,” Mike Doyle, Executive Director of Northern Virginia Families for Safe Streets, said. “Now, every one of these could have been avoided.”
Doyle, who founded the pedestrian safety group, is referring to the number of crashes from the past nine years, released in their new report examining the data…