When Oak Hill resident Shekhar Tiwari heard the loud bang from the front room of his house he immediately ran to the front door, his family at his heels.
What he saw, he couldn't believe.
"I opened the door and I saw this kid walking toward my door, and I asked him 'where did the blood come from?'," said Tiwari of the scene to the left of his driveway.
Around 11 p.m., Thursday, July 15, Fairfax County Fire and Rescue responded to a call in residential Oak Hill where a car with two passengers had collided with a parked car, flipped upside down and knocked over a lamppost.
The Fairfax County Police said they would not release the names of the two men involved, but they did say the driver was a 22-year old Herndon resident, and the passenger a 19-year old resident of Oak Hill.
Both occupants were taken from the accident scene by helicopter to the Fairfax County Hospital, which, according to Fairfax County Fire and Rescue means the injuries were serious.
RESIDENTS WHO SAW the aftermath of the crash said the accident involved a neighbor's parked car and the Porsche the two men were driving, at the intersection of Magna Carta and Oakhampton Place.
Magna Carta is a gradual curving road with a 25 mile an hour speed limit that carries a steady flow of traffic through the residential neighborhood.
"I was sewing in the back room of my house," said Louis Connor, whose house is on the corner where the accident occurred. "I heard this horrible noise and immediately I knew it was a car crash."
Connor said she and her husband went outside to see what had happened and saw a car overturned, on top of another car that appeared to be "pushed under it."
"It was completely flipped and in a mess," she said.
Tiwari, whose driveway entrance was where the cars landed, said it appeared the flipped car had hit their neighbor's parked car, turned and pushed it up into the bushes, knocking over a lamppost.
"I heard a big scratching sound and then a big bang," he said.
He said opened the door to see the dazed driver walking up to his house.
"I asked him 'where did the blood come from?' and he said 'I don't know.' And I asked him 'what happened?' and he said 'I don't know.'," said Tiwari.
He then told the young man to sit down and left his 25-year old son to comfort him while he called 911.
"The Porsche was upside down," said Tiwari describing the scene. "The cars were intertwined, it was very confusing, glass was scattered all over and a lamppost was broken by the car."
He said he could also see the leg of another person in the car.
"I think he was in shock," said Tiwari of the driver. "The car was totally turned upside down, I don't know how he got out, he must have crawled out of a window."
THE FAIRFAX COUNTY POLICE are still investigating the cause of the accident, but in their preliminary investigation said, "Apparently the driver lost control of the vehicle and struck a parked car." They said once the car struck the parked car it rolled and landed approximately 50-feet from the point of impact.
Tiwari and Connor said that the medical and police response to the scene was impressive, that approximately eight emergency vehicles were there within five minutes.
But Tiwari said it took some time for them to extract the passenger from the car because the lamppost's wires were everywhere and there was gasoline leaking from the vehicles.
Tiwari and Connor have lived in the neighborhood for more than 20 years and both said they have never seen an accident this severe, or any accident ever on their street.