UPDATE: Police ID Driver as Fairfax Man in Fatal Beltway Hit + Run

FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA -- Police say a Fairfax man is in custody after they say he fled a fatal hit and run early Monday on I-495 South.

The driver, Nicholas V. Hammond, 23, of Fairfax, was taken into custody after he was found in Annandale about two hours after the crash and is being held at Fairfax County Adult Detention Center on one charge of DUI, manslaughter, one felony count of hit-and-run, and driving on a suspended license, according to Virginia State Police.

Also Monday afternoon, police identified the woman passenger who died in the other car that was hit as Elmi Suada, 52, of Minnesota. Police say two of her children were also in the car; they were not seriously injured, according to police.

Suada was killed early Monday when the car she was traveling in was rear-ended by Hammond, according to Virginia State Police.

The fatal hit and run crash took place Monday at about 2:10 a.m. in the southbound lanes of Interstate 495 near the exit for Little River Turnpike (see map below), according to state police.

Two vehicles were traveling south in the main lanes of the Beltway when a Toyota Camry was rear-ended by a Nissan Maxima, according to police. The impact of the crash sent the Camry spinning into the Express Lanes, where it struck the Jersey wall, police said. The Nissan ran off the right side of the road, struck the guardrail, and then spun back across the southbound lanes of I-495 and came to a stop in the Express Lanes.

Hammond fled the scene on foot, leaving behind a female passenger in his car, according to police. Fairfax County Police canine teams responded to assist with the search for the driver, who was located nearly two hours later, before 4 a.m., walking along a street in Annandale. Hammond was taken into custody without further incident, police said.

The woman passenger in the Nissan was transported to Inova Fairfax Hospital for treatment of serious but non-life threatening injuries, according to police.

There were a total of five people in the Camry, and all are from out-of-state, as well as the DC-MD region: A man driving the car, an adult passenger, and two juveniles were transported to Inova Fairfax Hospital for treatment of serious injuries. All have been released from the hospital. The two juveniles were the children of the woman who died, police said.

The Virginia State Police Fairfax Division Crash Reconstruction Team is assisting with the ongoing investigation into the fatal crash. Charges are pending at this time.

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