UPDATE: 65-Year-Old Man Dies When Truck Crosses Onto Wrong Side of Braddock

UPDATE (9:35 a.m.): The truck driver who died yesterday afternoon was Albert Spriggs, 65, of Sterling, according to Fairfax County Police. His 2009 Chevrolet stake body truck somehow crossed the Braddock median. He first sideswiped a Chevrolet van, then hit another Chevrolet van head on, causing his truck to overturn. Spriggs was found dead at the scene.

Three other vehicles were involved in the accident. Five people, not the orginally-reported four, were taken to the hospital for non life-threatening injuries.

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A truck traveling the wrong way down Braddock Road caused a five-vehicle accident, killing one and injuring four others this afternoon.

The as-of-yet unidentified truck's driver was killed in the accident, according to Fairfax City Fire Chief Dave Rohr.

Firefighters are unsure why the truck was driving west in Braddock's eastbound lanes near N. Hill Road at around 2:30 p.m.

Fairfax County Police blocked off the eastbound side of Braddock Road at Shirley Gate Road shortly after the accident. Traffic is being detoured through a neighborhood. Westbound motorists crawled past the accident, at times having to merge a lane over to make way for emergency personnel.

The accident scene stretched from N. Hill Drive to Shadow Valley Drive. Two cars looked to have collided closer to N. Hill Drive, one of which had spun around. Farther west, another truck's hood was folded around a small tree in the Braddock median strip. Next to it, an overturned crate truck's crushed cab held a cargo van off balance.

Injured motorists were taken to Fairfax Hospital. Their conditions have yet to be released.

Check back for more information as it becomes available.