[Scan-DC] Car flipped over, Alexandria

[b_thom at juno.com]

Happened about 7:15 p.m. EDT. It landed in the front yard of 2201 Russell
Road (so now the WaPo reporter doesn't have to call everyone near the
intersection of Custis Avenue and Russell Road). It was one of those
two-door Japanese cars you can't tell apart, Maryland plates 5DD-xxx. The
car was headed south on Russell Road. I don't know what happened -
excessive speed, mechanical failure. I don't want to speculate.

I hadn't seen the car at first, as one of the cruisers blocked my view of
the scene. I thought it was a house fire. It wasn't until I turned the
corner that I saw what the actual event was.

Responding were, in part, Engines 202, 204 (with the FDNY logo), and 207;
one of the big ALS/BLS rescue vehicles; a couple of high muckety-mucks in
their Explorer-Expeditions; and three cruisers. I could hear a helicopter
on the ground in the distance; my guess is that the LZ was the Avis
rental car lot due east of Bellefonte Avenue where the southbound
classification tracks in Potomac Yards used to be. I saw one person
hauled away from the scene on a gurney.

Engine 202 is from the neighborhood; it is stationed at the old Potomac
fire station in Del Ray. Engines 204 and 207 had to come pretty far to
get to the scene; they drove north on Russell Road, as did the rescue
truck, to get to the scene.