Car overturns in Dale City
A car overturned on in the heart of Dale City just after12:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
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Published: November 25, 2008
A car overturned on in the heart of Dale City just after12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, leaving witnesses gaping at what they saw.
A late-model Mazda driven by a woman in her early twenties collided with a Jeep Cherokee at Gerry Lane, near Center Plaza, while traveling west bound.
“I saw the car airborne,” Jeep driver Marty Liam, of Dale City, said, still in shock after the car hit her.
After hitting her Jeep, the car flipped over the center median and landed on the east bound side of the road, she said.
Fire and rescue crews ripped the doors off the driver’s side of the car and pulled the woman out. She was taken to Potomac Hospital with minor injuries, said Prince William County police Officer P.E. Hill, a crash investigator.
Liam said she was making a right turn out of Center Plaza onto Dale Boulevard when she saw the Mazda barreling at her, traveling well over 50 mph, she said.
The accident tied up traffic at one of the county’s busiest intersections, where the six lanes of Minnieville Road cross Dale Boulevard’s four lanes.
Police directed traffic through the area as the line of cars waiting to get through grew increasingly longer.
After directing traffic through the nearby Pizza Hut parking lot, police eventually opened one lane of eastbound Dale Boulevard just after 1 p.m.
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Posted by ( Mark JM ) on December 01, 2008 at 4:30 pm
getoverit, you’re only partially correct. The 35mph speed limit is only for that residential area right before the Minneville Section. As you get past the stop light for Minneville the speed limit actually goes up to 45mph. Since this was Dale Blvd Northbound, the speed limit was actually 45mph at the spot of the accident.
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Posted by ( getoverit ) on December 01, 2008 at 3:22 pm
The speed limit in that area is 35mph and is usually congested.Extra caution should be taken in this area and a reduced speed used. 50mph is too fast for that area of Dale City.
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Posted by ( trickydix2000 ) on December 01, 2008 at 2:26 pm
I love this place you guy don’t miss a thing, way to get the story str8, i hope everyone is alright.
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Posted by ( ds567 ) on November 30, 2008 at 7:44 pm
The Potomac News has a habit of mis information to make something appear that isn’t. If the reporter knew anything about driving and laws in VA. The reporter would have known it was the Jeeps fault making a left turn into right of way traffic thus cutting off the a Mazda driver who had right of way. Instead they chose to sensationalize the story by making it appear as a “speeding car out of control by a 20 yr old driver hitting some poor defenseless person making a turn ” that’s what sells newspapers not the truth. Crap like this makes headlines as truth all the time just the mention of “snow” can get untold people to run to the store to buy milk, TP and bread! And then it never snows ha ha!
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Posted by ( vvncallejas ) on November 26, 2008 at 6:51 pm
I am the mazda driver and i would just like to say thank you to the two people who commented about the article
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Posted by ( Mark JM ) on November 26, 2008 at 1:31 pm
I agree with mtang87. The Mazda was only going at 50mph (it’s a 45mph zone). So speeding is only a small concern (she probably wasn’t even cited for speeding). I want to say the Jeep decided to pull out too late. Because the Jeep pulled out too late, cutting off the Mazda, this accident happened. The Jeep Cherokee is at fault as that driver could’ve waited until the Mazda went by and then pulled out.
This goes to show how selfish drivers in this area are. ME ME ME, that’s how everyone acts when it comes to the roads in this region.
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Posted by ( mtang87 ) on November 26, 2008 at 10:48 am
The person who wrote this article is messed up to not get both sides of the story and make it sound like it is completely the Mazda’s fault. They should have asked the Mazda driver what happened, as well as witnesses, and they’d realize that it is the Jeep’s fault, and that their story is false. GOOD JOB Staff Member, putting out false information just to get something out there.
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