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Two Hurt in SUV Rollover Accident Friday Night

by ARLnow.com | November 13, 2012 at 10:35 am | 3,655 views | 31 Comments

Two elderly women were taken to the hospital Friday night after an SUV rollover accident on Carlin Springs Road near Route 50.

The accident happened around 5:30 p.m. The women, driving in a hybrid Ford SUV, were attempting to take the ramp to Route 50 when they were T-boned by the driver of a Mercedes sedan, according to Arlington County Police spokesman Dustin Sternbeck. The vehicle rolled onto its side and against a light pole.

Firefighters had to extricate the women from the SUV using non-traditional means, Sternbeck said, since the roof of the vehicle was leaning against the pole. The women suffered minor injuries and were taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital.

No charges have been filed against either driver at this time, Sternbeck said.

Photo courtesy Steve Young

b-money

Ding Ding!

Who had Ford Escape? Bonus points for calling Hybrid!
- Right of Center
  
  Darn it. I had Honda CRV
Homeowner

So glad to be back to the post-election “normal”.
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Another photo: https://plus.google.com/photos/106149509452203552807/albums/5810330353721859201?authkey=CIHKq9_Iz7b2ugE

The people in both cars seemed OK but were shaken up.
Drunk_IrishChick

Any info on the guy hit on Washing Blvd Sunday night in front of Northside Social?
- let’s get this straight
  
  This is some guy you hit on on Washington Blvd?
  - Drunk_IrishChick
    
    No some drunk dude walked into the street between Osullivans and Northside…was hit by a vehicle..cops and fire were on the scene for hours
AWP

Wow, not even from MD, but California!
- Its How We Roll
  
  Perhaps a MD driver in a car with CA tags….eg., military
Mick

Not sure how the SUV could have been T-Boned taking an exit ramp.

Carlin is a dual divided road there. Did the SUV cross from the left lane and try to exit suddenly.

Or was the Benz coming off of Rte 50 and blew through the merge?

Most odd.
- other side of the river
  
  Looks like they were trying to turn left from SB Carlin Springs to get on to 50 EB and got hit by the Merc heading NB on Carlin Springs.
  
  There’s not a particularly good line of sight to make that left.
  - Mick
    
    Gotcha. Thanks, that helped my “internal map” click in.
    
    Dollar to a donut the NB car was going too fast and the old timers a bit slow and hesitant turning.
HappyCyclist

I dont think we should ban SUV’s, but we should designate one or two routes for them and confine them to those places.
- 1RLI
  
  Sort of like bicycles.
- Captain_Obvious
  
  good luck with that !
- YTK
  
  EVERY SUV MUST come from the factory from now on, with a full set of WHEELS on its roof!!!! Oh, and Froyo coupons!!
Columbia Piker

The average person driving in South Arlington is undeserving of a license.
- WeiQiang
  
  welp, the Hybrid SUV [congrats to the winner of the flip-pool] was coming from NArl and the Benz was ostensibly heading home to NArl. sounds like a problem of and by NArl drivers.
- DCBuff
  
  Which is why you will be getting a trolley.
  - YTK
    
    Hmm.. yes they could have been T-boned by a Trolley……… This is Skeeery. Real Skeeery (reaches for a consolation Froyo)
SHLady

the Arlington Gravity Anomaly strikes again.
MrsKerin

Does non-traditional extraction mean they took them out through the trunk? Glad everyone was okay — but the police/fire/emergency response did a terrible job with the traffic. I waited on Carlin Springs for over 1/2 hour only to half to turn around and go back the other way.
- Traditional Extractor
  
  We could not extract two elderly ladies in the same rescue. Virgnia law respects traditional extraction: only the rescue of one man and one woman.
  - dumpbox
    
    +1000
  - http://twitter.com/jennrubenstein jenn
    
    oh man that made me laugh. thank you!
Grace

And what makes them “elderly”?
- Quoth the Raven
  
  Their age!
sam the cat

The AGA strikes again
Cyrus

These are all really funny comments pertaining to a serious auto accident. Once again the denizens of the ArlNow community have not disapointed. Pathetic.
- Mick
  
  Oooh, looks like somebody’s “J” is spiking.
Jerome Smiff

MrsKerin I feel so badly that “you” had to wait in traffic for 30 minutes while someone else was having, what may have been, the most terrifying day of their life trapped in an overturned vehicle. I’m sure you tweeted or updated your Facebook to make sure all of your friends knew “you” were stuck in traffic because the police/fire/emergency response people were doing such a terrible job to clear your path to Northside Social.

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