Otilia Arriaza

Otilia Arriaza (May 18, 1936 – December 29, 2006) was a 70-year-old woman who was struck and mortally injured as she crossed Baron Cameron Avenue at Bennington Woods Road in Reston by a 2000 Saturn station wagon driven by a 55-year-old man from Stanley, Virginia on December 29, 2006.[1]

Arriza, a Guatemalan immigrant, was walking from her home in Herndon to one of her two full-time jobs as a cleaning assistant at a senior care facility when the incident happened at 6:20 in the morning. She was airlifted to the Inova Fairfax Hospital, where she died about two hours later.[2]

References

  1. Fairfax County Police Department. Public Information Office. Pedestrian Fatality in Reston Area. Fairfax County Police Department News Release. Fairfax County Police Department, 29 Dec. 2006. Web. 29 Dec. 2011.
  2. Krischke, Scott J. "Recalling Fallen Matriarch." Herndon Connection. Connection Newspapers, 10 Jan. 2007. Web. 29 Dec. 2011.