{"id":372026,"date":"2025-12-26T23:22:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/372026\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T23:22:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:22:03","slug":"2-killed-6-injured-in-fairfax-co-car-crash-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/372026\/","title":{"rendered":"2 killed, 6 injured in Fairfax Co. car crash on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have died and six others were injured after a car crash on the Capital Beltway in Fairfax County, Virginia, Christmas morning.<\/p>\n<p>Two people have died, and six others were injured after a car crash on the Capital Beltway in Fairfax County, Virginia, Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia State Police are investigating a two-vehicle crash that happened on Interstate 495 around 10:40 a.m. on Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>In an email, a VSP spokesperson said six people were inside of a Toyota Sienna minivan when it collided with a Dodge Ram pickup truck with two passengers inside.<\/p>\n<p>Two passengers inside the minivan, a 75-year old woman and a 15-year-old, were taken to a local hospital where they later succumbed to their injuries and died, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The two passengers in the pickup truck were also transported to the hospital. Police did not give details on their conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Officials believe the crash happened in the main lanes of I-495. The minivan was found in the eastbound express lanes and the truck was found in the main lanes.<\/p>\n<p>The crashes remain under investigation, and no further details have been released at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-page__signature bottom\">Get breaking news and daily headlines delivered to your email inbox by signing up <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/newsletter-signup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-page__signature bottom\">\u00a9 2025 WTOP. All Rights Reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have died and six others were injured after a car crash on the Capital Beltway in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,47080,182441,68006,3,21,19,22,20,25,24,182442,68884],"class_list":["post-372026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-car-accident","tag-fatal-car-crash","tag-interstate-495","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-virginia-state-police","tag-vsp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}