A woman suffered significant injuries after driving into the side of a building in the Clarendon area Monday evening.
The crash happened shortly before 5 p.m. at the Courtland Park apartment building on the 2500 block of Clarendon Blvd, roughly between the Clarendon and Courthouse Metro stations.
Initial reports suggest the driver was trapped and bleeding profusely from the head when first responders arrived on scene. She was extricated from the vehicle — a crossover-style SUV — and taken via ambulance to a local trauma center.
No one else was hurt and the ground floor of the apartment building only suffered “cosmetic damage,” not structural damage, according to the Arlington County Fire Department.
“Vehicle into a building with one person trapped at the 2500 block of Clarendon Blvd,” ACFD said on social media. “Patient has been extricated and is being transported with non-life threatening injuries. Cosmetic damage only to the building. Crews should be returning to service shortly.”
Separately, Monday morning, the fire department freed a person trapped under a mini-excavator that tipped over on a sidewalk in the Williamsburg Village neighborhood. The victim’s injuries were described as non-life-threatening.
#Update: Patient has been extricated and is being package for transport with non-life threatening injuries.
— Arlington Fire & EMS (@ArlingtonVaFD) December 16, 2024
