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D.C. police SUV hits pedestrian near Farragut North station: witness

By Peter Hermann
and 
Julie Zauzmer
 
October 12, 2015
By Peter Hermann
and 
Julie Zauzmer
 
October 12, 2015
D.C. police are investigating a crash involving a police car that struck a pedestrian crossing the street at Connecticut Avenue and L Street NW. (Video: WUSA9)
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Updated at 4:19 p.m.

A D.C. police SUV on Monday afternoon struck a man who was crossing Connecticut Avenue, according to witnesses at the scene.

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Tim Wilson, a fire department spokesman, said that two people were hurt — one critically, one seriously — in the 1:44 p.m. crash. He could not provide more details.

A witness said a marked police SUV was heading south on Connecticut Avenue NW with its lights and siren on when it collided with a male pedestrian crossing west to east on L Street.

“The impact was huge,” said Joan Maher, a nurse from Bethesda who witnessed the crash.

The impact sent the police vehicle into the concrete median and flower bed just south of the intersection at Farragut North. The intersection remains closed to traffic.

Maher didn’t know whether the traffic signal was red or the pedestrian had a walk signal.

Washington Post reporter Clarence Williams tweeted at the scene of the crash:

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