View Larger Map There's some early reports that a pedestrian has been struck by a vehicle on Connecticut Ave. NW near Nebraska Ave. NBC4 says that Connecticut is currently closed between Nebraska and Fessenden, and that the car was a white Dodge Neon. Police radio reports indicate the victim died before EMS reached the scene. We'll update when we know more. UPDATE: More from NBC4, who confirms that the elderly man who was struck died......

View Larger Map Be aware that traffic heading north on Massachusetts Ave. NW this evening could still be experiencing even more backup than usual due to an earlier scaffolding collapse at the Foxhall Condominiums. Two construction workers were injured -- one with a serious head injury, the other with two broken legs -- when a 30-foot-tall scaffolding behind the building at 4200 Mass. Ave. NW fell down while the workers were atop it. The collapse......

A car struck a Metrobus at 16th and U Streets SE, near Good Hope Rd. SE, at 11:50 a.m. this morning, resulting in 16 people reported injured. The Post says the driver of the car ran a red light before it hit the bus. Two people were in the car, and a driver and 13 passengers were on the B2 route bus. All of the injuries appear to be minor.......

WTOP is reporting that Joshua Stoll and Michael Feiock, the two men who died in July when their heads hit an overpass while riding on the roof of an Open Top Sightseeing bus shuttling fans to Nationals Park, were legally drunk when they died. Police believe both men were standing on the seats at the time of the crash. Open Top is still operating its regular tour buses in D.C., but its Nationals shuttles have......

WTOP reports that the Baltimore-Washington Parkway reopened shortly after 10:30 a.m. The parkway was closed for five hours in both directions after two people were killed early this morning in a major accident involving two pickup trucks, one car and a motorcycle. Two other people were injured in the crash — one was taken to the hospital in stable condition and another was treated at the scene.......

Thanks to reader Stephanie Pendergrass, who snapped these photos of a tree that fell across K Street NW between 20th and 21st at around 3:15 p.m. Stephanie says the tree landed on a van and an SUV, but she didn't see anyone injured. Probably best to expect delays on any bus lines that travel along K Street, including the Circulator, and to plan alternate driving routes for those of you who commute by car. What......

You may recall the mysterious death of a 3-year-old girl in Potomac, Md. about a month ago. A mother and two children had been seen walking down the road to a gas station, and then later, turned up at a fire station with the daughter having sustained fatal injuries. The mother had been described as behaving erratically enough that an employee at the gas station where they were seen called police. The Post reports that......

If you ran in to a lot of backed up traffic downtown early this morning, the Post explains why: D.C. firefighters rescued a construction worker on the ninth floor of an 11-story building at 1999 K Street NW. The worker fractured his right ankle after a fall at about 7:30 a.m., and because the building does not have working elevators, fire crews had to use a construction crane to get the man down to the......

You had to know this was coming. Open Top Sightseeing, the bus company that operates the Nationals shuttle on which two people died on Friday night when their heads hit an overpass, is suspending the service for the time being. Open Top wouldn't talk with reporters for a couple days after the accident, but their lawyer, Jim Rodio, has since spoken to the Associated Press, and this is the first time we've seen an answer......

On the blocks around Dupont Circle yesterday evening, there were more bikes than usual for a standard evening commute. Their point of convergence was the corner of 20th and R Streets NW, adjacent to the outdoor diners at La Tomate, most of whom looked on in some confusion as the crowd continued to gather at the corner, and members of the press set up microphones at the Washington Area Bicyclist’s Association’s podium. Organizers reminded the......

You can almost sort of but not really understand the actions of Metro Transit Police Captain Leslie Campbell, who the Post reports is under investigation for failing to report a minor collision he had with a pedestrian outside the Anacostia Metro station last month. Campbell wasn't going very fast and more or less tapped a pedestrian with his car -- the pedestrian wasn't injured and the car was not damaged. When the pedestrian declined medical......

Photo of the mangled bicycle of Alice Swanson, who was killed when she was struck by a garbage truck just north of Dupont Circle this morning, courtesy Washington Area Bicyclist Association D.C. Police this afternoon identified the cyclist who was killed just north of Dupont Circle as 22-year-old District resident Alice Swanson. Scant other details are available yet about the accident, but WTOP says that at this point, no charges have been filed against......

The AP is reporting that a 22-year-old woman has died after being struck by a garbage truck while riding her bicycle near Dupont Circle this morning. The garbage truck, which was not owned by the city but rather a private company, struck the woman at Connecticut and R Streets NW just before 8:30 a.m. The roadway around the accident site was shut down while officers investigated the scene. The woman has not yet been......

Our own Andrew Wiseman last night happened upon what was no doubt the beginning of a really terrible morning for several Columbia Heights residents. On 13th Street NW between Clifton and Fairmont, a row of five or more parked cars were smashed up by another car crashing into them. Some had missing wheels, front ends knocked off, crunched fenders, broken bumpers and more. Police had already arrived on the scene by the time Andrew showed......

Consider alternate routes around the Wilson Bridge this evening, as WTOP is reporting a serious motorcycle crash on the Inner Loop of the Beltway near the bridge. An AlertDC email at 2:33 p.m. said that the Woodrow Wilson Bridge is actually closed at this time. The Outer Loop remains open. WTOP says that emergency personnel and officials are asking all motorists to stay off the shoulders, even though all lanes are currently blocked. Photo by......

Photos by Sommer Mathis A construction worker has been injured in a building collapse in the 1400 block of Belmont Street NW. The worker was operating a Bobcat in a four story apartment at 1417 Belmont ST NW, which was under renovation, when the building partially collapsed. He's currently being taken in an ambulance to a nearby hospital. Streets around the building have been shut down as fire officials establish a collapse zone. Belmont......

WMATA is reporting that a man was struck by a train on the Red line at the Wheaton Metro station at 1:45 p.m. today. The six-car train was traveling in the direction of Glenmont. There's no word yet on the man's condition or how he was hit by the train. Red line trains are sharing one track while police and emergency personnel investigate. The Wheaton station is still open, but trains are sharing one track......

The Post's Clarence Williams alerts us to the new ad campaign from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments's Street Smart program, which aims to scare the bejeezus out of drivers and pedestrians in the hopes that we'll all be a lot more careful out on the road. A new study shows that on average more than 80 people die and 2,000 people are injured a year in pedestrian accidents in the Washington region. In addition......

Not a lot of details on this just yet, but Assistant Police Chief Diane Groomes just sent around an email alerting neighborhood lists that T Street NW is closed to traffic at and around 14th Street due to a construction worker having fallen off the roof of a building he was working on. Units from the MPD are already on the scene. If you're nearby and see anything that might be relevant to our readers,......

>> A winter weather advisory is in effect in parts of the area as freezing rain and sleet are expected to move in Thursday morning. [NBC4] >> A boy under the age of 10 was hit by a dump truck just after 4 p.m. at the intersection of 13th Street and Potomac Avenue SE. [WJLA] >> Um, so, forget about that Ron Paul blimp ever actually getting here, we guess. [Wonkette] >> "a multitude......