FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — Virginia State Police are investigating a crash that left a man dead Sunday night.
At 9:14 p.m., officers responded to several calls of a pedestrian being struck by a vehicle on the northbound I-495 service road for Exit 50 in Fairfax County. At the scene, officers located a man who had been hit by a vehicle and pronounced him dead.
The man was later identified as 55-year-old Douglas C. Haskett II of Ashburn, Virginia. An investigation found that Haskett had been struck by a Chevrolet Traverse. The driver of the Traverse left the scene of the crash.
Fairfax County Police later received a call from the driver, and let VSP know. Troopers responded to a parking garage in Fairfax County, where they arrested the driver. Police identified the driver as 46-year-old Brian C. Diffell of Falls Church.
Diffell was charged with one felony county of hit-and-run in connection to the crash. The circumstances surrounding the crash are still under investigation.
Anyone with more information is asked to call Virginia State Police at 804-674-2000.
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