Crime & Safety
Speed, Alcohol Factors In Deadly Great Falls Crash: Police
The crash, which happened in September, claimed the lives of two people and sent a third to the hospital.
GREAT FALLS, VA -- A fatal crash in the Great Falls area in September was caused by a combination of speed and alcohol, police say.
On Sept. 16 at around 7 p.m., a car ran off the road and hit a tree in the 10500 block of Beach Mill Road, according to a report from the Fairfax County Police Department.
The driver, 26-year-old Benjamin Wenger of Annandale, and the passenger, 23-year-old Abigail Ryan of Great Falls, died at the scene of the crash, and a 15-year-old girl in the backseat was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
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Police say the car was traveling west on Beach Mill Road when it left the roadway, crossed back over the road, and then struck a tree.
In an update posted Jan. 24, police said detectives had determined that "both speed and alcohol contributed" to the crash.
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