Archive
The monthly write-ups — the narrative behind the map. Each month walks through that month's incidents with the original dispatch audio. Newest first.
October 2026 · in progress
What dispatch heard in October →
The current running log: a hit-and-run on a scooter rider at Pitt and Queen in the morning commute, and an 11-year-old girl freed from under an SUV on North Ripley Street.
September 2026
What dispatch heard in September →
The heaviest month yet: 19 VRU strikes, four of them children — including an 11-year-old on North Pegram Street and a 14-year-old girl hit by a DASH bus — plus hit-and-runs known only from victims’ own delayed reports, and the fourth crash at Radford and Braddock.
August 2026
What dispatch heard in August →
A woman struck by an SUV at Slater's Lane in Potomac Greens, a cluster of strikes around Edsall Road and South Van Dorn Street in the West End, and a child hit at Russell Road and Mount Vernon Avenue on the month's last day.
July 2026
A hit-and-run pedestrian struck by a blue vehicle on Duke Street, another pedestrian struck at Gristmill and Hoffman, and injury and property-damage crashes along the Mount Vernon Avenue corridor.
June 2026
The current running log, updated through the month: a scooter rider hurt by a reckless driver in a West End garage, plus early corridor crashes on Braddock Road and Mount Vernon Avenue — including a hit-and-run where dispatch caught the striking van's plate.
May 2026
The first month under the new structure: citywide VRU strikes plus the start of systematic vehicle-crash tracking on Braddock Road and Mount Vernon Avenue — including the three Radford Street crashes that anchor the Braddock West (Phase 2) case.
April 2026 · the original retrospective
Nineteen people were hit by drivers in Alexandria in April →
The piece that started the project, preserved at its original address exactly as published — including its own full methodology and recommendations. The canonical, evergreen versions of those now live at Methodology and Recommendations.
New months append here. The map on the home page shows every month at once; use the month filter there to isolate one.