A 13-year-old boy was struck by a silver 2003 Honda CRV while crossing in the crosswalk at E. Oxford Avenue and Mount Vernon Avenue in Del Ray around 11:15 a.m. Monday. First responders reported that the boy remained conscious and was able to walk, though he suffered an injury to his hip. All parties stayed at the scene as police worked to sort out what happened.
According to ALXnow, which first reported the crash, the Alexandria Police Department recovered the Virginia license plate number of the SUV involved, with all parties remaining on scene according to APD radio transmissions. The outlet said it had reached out to APD for more information on the incident.
A Neighborhood Already on Edge
This is far from the first time a child has been hit crossing the street in Del Ray this year. A 9-year-old girl was struck in a Del Ray crosswalk back on May 1, hit by a driver on a learner's permit who stayed at the scene and was cited for failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk, per the same account from Alexandria Brief. Reports on the timing of that collision differ: ALXnow reported it happened around 5 p.m., while Alexandria Brief put the crash at approximately 5:30 p.m. at Mount Vernon Avenue and Kennedy Street.
Other pedestrian crashes have rattled Alexandria throughout the year. A child was struck by a vehicle on Sanger Avenue near William Ramsay Elementary School on April 15, and a pedestrian was struck near N. Van Dorn Street and Sanger Avenue that same month. A woman was killed after being struck by a vehicle in Old Town North in April, and another woman was injured in a pedestrian crash in Old Town on Oct. 22.
The Numbers Behind the Pattern
The city's own Vision Zero dashboard, updated through July 14, recorded 11 pedestrian crashes in 2026, including two with suspected serious injuries, the outlet reported. Northern Virginia Families for Safe Streets found that near-miss reports over the prior year and a half were concentrated around Del Ray and Old Town, a pattern that matches where Monday's crash occurred.
That concentration shows up in more granular data as well. Alexandria Brief's analysis of 241 near-miss reports collected between Jan. 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026, found that Potomac West, the area commonly known as Del Ray, drew the most reports of any part of the city, with 45. Mount Vernon Avenue itself was the most-reported street in those filings, cited 26 times, followed by Kennedy Street with 14, according to the Alexandria Brief analysis. Failure to yield was cited in 76% of those reports, and children were present or nearby in 124 of them, or 52% of the total. The outlet cautioned that the reports are self-selected rather than a random sample.
City Response and Longer-Term Trends
Alexandria's Traffic and Parking Board voted in October to install no-turn-on-red signage at all signalized intersections in Old Town, Old Town North and Braddock/Parker-Gray, part of a broader push tied to the city's Vision Zero plan. That plan, adopted in 2017, set a goal of zero fatal and severe crashes by 2028.
Alexandria Brief's review of citywide crash data found 145 fatal and severe crashes on the city's maintained streets between 2020 and 2025, broken down as 17 fatal and 128 severe. Fatal crashes have fallen since 2020, the outlet reported, even as severe-injury crashes have climbed over the same period.
Anyone with information on the Nov. 2 crash is asked to contact the Alexandria Police Department at 703-746-4444; callers may remain anonymous.
