Crash snarled Inner Loop traffic on Woodrow Wilson Bridge early Monday

By Alejandro Alvarez
August 12, 2019 | 7:20 AM

A serious accident on the Capital Beltway’s Inner Loop in Alexandria stalled traffic across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge during Monday morning commute.

The crash, involving a tractor trailer, was moved to the right shoulder of the Inner Loop Thru Lanes just before the exit to Eisenhower Avenue around 6 a.m.

The crash investigation concluded by 7:30 a.m. and delays were clearing. At one point, westbound delays on I-495 stretched for over 6 miles, across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge to near Marlow Heights, Maryland.

Virginia State Police have yet to release additional information about the crash.

For the latest road and traffic conditions, see WTOP’s traffic page.

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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