A woman died at a hospital Saturday evening after being struck by a vehicle on General Booth Boulevard in Virginia Beach, according to police. The crash happened around 4:27 p.m. in the 1600 block of General Booth Boulevard, and the woman was pronounced dead at 5:27 p.m. after medics rushed her to the hospital.
Police said the driver remained at the scene following the crash, as reported by 13News Now. Investigators have not released further details about the vehicle involved or the exact circumstances of the collision, and the case remains under investigation.
A Corridor With a History of Serious Crashes
Saturday's fatal crash is not the first serious collision to hit General Booth Boulevard in recent memory. A motorcyclist was seriously injured in a crash on the same road on Sept. 10, according to the station's report, which shut down the northbound lane between Adanka Lane and Oceana Boulevard for a time. That crash was reported around 2:15 p.m. in the 900 block of General Booth Boulevard, several blocks from Saturday's scene.
The road has also seen fatal outcomes before. The City of Virginia Beach documented a fatal crash involving a bicyclist on General Booth Boulevard back in July 2024, according to a notice from the City of Virginia Beach.
Part of a Troubling Citywide Pattern
Saturday's death adds to a pattern that Virginia Beach police have flagged throughout the year. Police investigated five fatal crashes involving pedestrians in 2025, and in all five of those cases, police found the pedestrian to be at fault, per the same outlet's earlier reporting. Virginia Beach Police Chief Paul Neudigate has described that pattern as a “troubling and preventable trend.”
That earlier report also detailed a separate fatal crash in the 2400 block of Virginia Beach Boulevard, which happened at 11:36 p.m. and killed a 72-year-old male pedestrian who was pronounced dead at the scene. The city's own police traffic-crash dataset notes that such reports are generated whenever a crash involves more than $1,500 in estimated property damage or results in personal injury on public roadways, according to data.virginiabeach.gov.
No further information has been released about Saturday's victim or whether any citations or charges have resulted from the crash. Virginia Beach police continue to investigate.
