6 transported, drugstore building struck in series of Northeast DC crashes

By Abigail Constantino
October 3, 2018 | 10:57 PM

WASHINGTON — In one crash, six people were taken to a hospital in a multivehicle crash, and in another crash, a box truck struck a drugstore. Both crashes happened in Northeast D.C. on Wednesday night. Around 8 p.m., travel lanes were shut down on New York Avenue between First Street and Florida Avenue in Northeast due to a multivehicle crash. Six vehicles were involved, and six people were transported to the hospital.

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D.C. police advised drivers to find alternate routes, such as North Capitol Street and Florida Avenue. The Department of Public Works arrived to clean up debris and fuel spill. At around 8:30 p.m., a box truck struck a Rite-Aid building on 14th Street and Rhode Island Avenue in Northeast. D.C. Fire and EMS said that there were no injuries, and an assessment shows that there was no structural damage.

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Below are the areas where the crashes happened.

One attack, many Americas: Why 9/11 and its many griefs land differently 25 years later

By The Associated Press
September 7, 2026 | 8:47 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — When the planes crashed and the buildings fell on that sunny September morning 25 years ago, the shock waves of dismay and grief went far past downtown New York City, rural western Pennsylvania and just outside Washington, D.C. They radiated through every part of the United States in communities large and small, tearing at Americans' sense of safety and their place in the world. Hearts were broken across the nation, not just of those who lost their loved ones but among strangers who mourned for them, the Sept. 11 attacks leaving no one unaffected in an unwanted moment of horrifying togetherness. A quarter of a century later, the effects linger. We all live in a post-9/11 world, with its security strictures and surveillance. But here's the thing: Americans don't all live in the SAME one. What the attacks and their aftermath have come to mean isn't a single viewpoint shared by everyone, for reasons chronological, political and personal. It's a tapestry of meaning and grief as varied as the nation in which 9/11 took place.

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