Sunday, April 21, 2013
Two-car accident blocked intersection Sunday afternoon.
Traffic on Franconia Road moved slowly around a two-vehicle accident Sunday afternoon. FCPD received a report about the accident around 12:30 p.m. and arrived two minutes later. As a result of the accident, one of the cars appeared to have slammed into the median of the street. The two cars involved in the crash blocked the road and caused minor congestion at the intersection of Franconia Road and Beulah Street, less than a mile from the Franconia District Police Station and the Franconia Volunteer Fire Station, according to FCPD communications. Units from FCPD and Fairfax County Fire and Rescue arrived on scene to clear the road and permit traffic to pass. According to FCPD, drivers involved in the accident experienced some non-life …
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Medical examiner can't release information on whether Casey Noriega suffered any sort of seizure before her car hit a pole.
Local Gymboree teacher Casey Noriega died of "blunt chest and abdomen trauma" Dec. 10 when the car she was driving struck a pole at Beulah Street and Windsor Avenue in Kingstowne, and the manner was ruled an accident, the Virginia Medical Examiner's Office said Wednesday. It is still uncertain whether the 29-year-old mother who left behind a son suffered any sort of seizure or attack prior to the car accident that took her life because the medical examiner's office cannot release that information, according to Nancy Bull, district administrator, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Northern District. The Code of Virginia classifies any information regarding a medical examiner case as confidential and allows the Office of the Chief Medical…
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Casey Noriega's family awaits results of state medical examiner's office autopsy.
The Fairfax County Police Department is looking into the possibility that Casey Noriega, the 29-year-old gym teacher and mother who was killed Saturday when her car struck a pole in Kingstowne, may have died before the crash, according to family friends. FCPD investigates all fatal accidents and it's possible Noriega could have suffered from some medical condition prior to the crash, said FCPD spokesman Don Gotthardt. The state medical examiner's office determines on a case-by-case basis whether someone dies from a medical condition or the blunt force trauma of a car accident, he said. Noriega's fatal accident occurred at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday, after she left her job at Gymboree Music and Arts, 318 S. Pickett St., where she was a …
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Casey Noriega, 29, died Saturday when her car struck a pole in Kingstowne.
A Newington-area mom was involved in a single-vehicle fatal crash on Saturday, according to Fairfax County Police. At about 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Casey Noriega, 29, of Haynes Point Way, was driving a 2001 Toyota Camry southbound on Beulah Street approaching the intersection of Windsor Avenue. For unknown reasons, she drove off the road and struck a pole. She was 1.4 miles from her home, although it is uncertain if she was driving home or had just left home. Noriega was transported to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead, police said. Noriega left behind a family, a group of friends and work colleagues, and students at Gymboree Play and Music of Alexandria, where she was an instructor. How to break the news to kids at Gymboree has …
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Audrey Taylor Burkhalter
7:13 am on Thursday, December 22, 2011
I am sorry but do you have children? I do not think that this is an instance of coddling a child but rather them not fully understanding exactly what happened to begin with. Explaining death to a 2 year old is not something that is easy. And what is even more sad is that you are comparing parents discretions to policitians. That is ridiculous! more ›