DC - Traffic Fatality on West Virginia Avenue, NE
By admin • Sep 26th, 2008 • Category: Other NewsDISCLAIMER - Any Charges Reported in these Press Releases are Merely Accusations and the Defendants are Presumed Innocent Unless and Until Proven Guilty.
September 26, 2008
Investigators assigned to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Major Crash Investigations Unit are conducting an ongoing investigation into a fatal traffic accident which occurred in the 1800 block of West Virginia Avenue, NE.
On Wednesday, September 24, 2008, at approximately 10:51 pm, a 2000 Acura 3.2 TL that evidently was traveling at a high rate of speed northbound on West Virginia Avenue, NE reportedly passed through a solid yellow light at the intersection of Mt. Olivet Road and West Virginia Avenue, NE. Consequently, the Acura struck a pedestrian who was walking southbound across the 1800 block West Virginia Avenue, NE.
The pedestrian, who has been identified as 65-year-old Clarence Ford Jr., of no fixed address, was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead at 11:17 pm.
The driver fled the scene of the accident and a short time later was stopped and arrested in the 1700 block of Montana Avenue NE. The suspect, identified as 25-year-old Lamont N. Goodwin, of Northeast, Washington, DC has been charged with Leaving After Colliding, DWI, and Involuntary Manslaughter.
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