Virginia: Road worker struck on U.S. 29 Culpeper County

A highway construction worker was injured Friday morning when she was struck by a motorist on U.S. 29 near the intersection of State Route 3. According to Sgt. Les Tyler of the Virginia State Police, Rachel Marie Brown, 25, of Spotsylvania County had stopped her work truck in the left lane of Northbound Route 29 and was unloading crash cushions (orange plastic barrels) when both she and a crash cushion were hit by a 2007 Nissan Altima driven by Robert Scott Friedman, 29, of Leesburg.

Friedman then spun and hit a 1999 Saab driven by 37-year-old Teneshia West of Madison, Tyler said. Brown was taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital while Friedman was sent to the University of Virginia Hospital. The extent of their injuries was not known Friday afternoon. West was not injured, Tyler said.

Tyler said that Brown was standing near the passenger side of her truck when the accident occurred. She was constructing a temporary barrier to close the left lane as crews prepared to continue with median reconstruction as part of the Routes 29/666 overpass project that is now in its final stages.