Mom's Vehicle Struck By Police With Kids In Car In Route 1 Corridor

FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA — A mother's video has gone viral after Fairfax County Police struck her vehicle and detained her in the Richmond Highway corridor.

Fairfax County Police determined officers the mom and her children were not the suspects they were seeking. Police and the driver disagree over whether the vehicle was involved in a crime.

The encounter happened around 3:30 p.m. Saturday in the area of Richmond Highway, according to Fairfax County Police. In the video that has gone viral on Instagram, Jamee Kimble said she was hit head-on by a police cruiser with her children in the car as she was heading to Walmart to buy food.

In a news release, Fairfax County Police said officers were on a lookout from Arlington County for a felony vehicle with occupants listed as armed and dangerous in the area of Richmond Highway and South Kings Highway.

According to police, "further information confirmed the stopped vehicle was the wanted vehicle." But Kimble wrote on social media her vehicle was mistaken for a vehicle involved in a high-speed chase, as she was giving birth by C-section during the time of the chase six days prior.

"They stopped the wrong person, the wrong person on Richmond Highway," Kimble said in her video.

The vehicle contained Kimble, two children and another adult. Kimble said police pointed a gun at her, put her in handcuffs and put her children in a police cruiser until her name was cleared. Police said the vehicle occupants were not involved in the Arlington County incident and did not own the vehicle.

Fairfax County Police said the police cruiser had struck the vehicle's front bumper at an estimated speed under 10 mph and caused minimal vehicle damage. Police are conducting an administrative review of the incident.

Kimble requested she and her children by taken to the hospital by ambulance.

Kimble called for the involved officer to be fired. According to NBC4, Kimble will talk to a police department representative this week.