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3 Dead In Fairfax County Freight Train Accident ID'd As Young Soccer Player, Mom, Friend
Police have released details in a train accident that left three people including a mother and her child dead earlier this week in Fairfax County.
Yeraldin Pardo, 28, of Lincolnia, was on the elevated tracks at Accotink Park Road in Springfield with her 8-year-old son and 28-year-old Diego Arriaza, of Annandale, around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 5, county police said.
The freight train struck Arriaza, while Pardo and the boy, identified in a GoFundMe campaign as Eli, fell from the bridge, police said. All three victims were declared dead at the scene.
Arriaza and Pardo appear to have been f…
