A 23-year-old man from Fredericksburg died Sunday morning, Jan. 21, after losing control of his car and striking a tree, according to Fairfax County Police.
Officers responded to the area of 6700 Telegraph Road in Alexandria around 1 a.m. for the report of a single-car crash. Once on scene, they located a Honda Civic. The driver, 23-year-old, Walther Rubio Valladarez, was the only occupant of the Honda.
Detectives from the Crash Reconstruction Unit are investigating the crash to determine if excessive speed may have led to the crash. According to police, it appeared that the Honda was traveling southbound on Telegraph Road just prior to S. Kings Highway when he lost control of the car and went off the road to the right into a tree. Valladarez was pronounced dead on the scene.