Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Police Hit 100 Tickets in Pedestrian Enforcement

Fairfax County police have warned more than 500 pedestrians and motorists traveling through busy Merrifield intersection.

Fairfax County police have handed out 100 tickets to pedestrians and motorists in a busy intersection along Gallows Road in Merrifield.

The $250 tickets were given to motorists who didn’t yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk or pedestrians failing to cross in the crosswalks.

Police has targeted the intersection near the Dunn Loring Metro station since vehicles hit two pedestrians earlier this year. Lucy Caldwell, a spokeswoman with county police, said the .

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Caldwell said 502 people were warned since then for failing to yield to pedestrians and pedestrians who failed to cross the busy intersection in the crosswalk.

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