A 33-year-old Manassas man was killed and three people were taken to hospital with injuries police described as non-life-threatening early on Saturday, October 31, 2026, after his car crossed into oncoming traffic on Centreville Road in the Yorkshire area of Prince William County, Virginia, and struck another vehicle head-on, Prince William County police said. Officers responded at 2:13 a.m. to the intersection of Centreville Road and Rugby Road, near Manassas, using the Manassas postal address 20111.
Source: Potomac Local News, reporting Prince William County Police
Police identified the dead driver as Dmitry Vazquez, 33, of Manassas. Investigators said he was driving a 2021 BMW M5 southbound on Centreville Road when he lost control, crossed into the northbound lanes and struck a 2013 Ford Explorer travelling in the opposite direction. Vazquez was pronounced deceased at the scene. Police have not said what caused him to lose control.
Source: Potomac Local News, reporting Prince William County Police
Who was in the Ford Explorer
The Explorer's driver was a 21-year-old woman from Leesburg, police said. Her two passengers were a 22-year-old woman from Leesburg and a man from Leesburg whose date of birth police listed as unknown. All three sustained non-life-threatening injuries and were transported to area hospitals, according to the police release published in full by Potomac Local News. FOX 5 DC reporting on the same police account gave the same core facts: the BMW crossed into oncoming traffic, Vazquez died at the scene, and the Explorer's driver and two passengers were hospitalised with injuries that were not life-threatening.
Source: FOX 5 DC / 7News reporting, via syndication
Potomac Local updated its report on Saturday to clarify the geography: the crash happened in the Yorkshire area of Prince William County, and police used a Manassas postal address for the location. That distinction matters for readers searching by place: Yorkshire is the community area, Manassas 20111 is the postal address in the police release, and the named cross-street is Rugby Road.
The road and the time of night
Centreville Road is a main north-south arterial through this part of Prince William County, carrying traffic between Manassas, Yorkshire and Centreville. A head-on crash at 2:13 a.m. on that arterial — a southbound car crossing the centre line into the northbound lanes — is the pattern crash investigators will now work through in detail: where exactly the BMW left its lanes, how far it travelled in the opposing lanes before impact, and what the Explorer's driver could or could not do in response. None of those findings has been published yet, and Awaaz Punjab is not speculating about speed, impairment or distraction, none of which police mentioned in the release.
Crash investigators are asking anyone who witnessed the crash to contact Prince William County police at 703-792-6500, or submit a tip online at pwcva.gov/policetip, police said in the release published by Potomac Local News.
What police have — and have not — said
What police have said is a complete basic sequence: time, place, direction, vehicles, the crossing into oncoming lanes, one death at the scene and three hospitalisations with non-life-threatening injuries. What police have not said is equally clear from the release: no cause for the loss of control, no mention of alcohol, drugs, speed or a medical event, no charges — there is no one to charge in the published account, since the driver who crossed over died at the scene — and no further detail about the three hospitalised people's conditions beyond 'non-life-threatening'. Any account that adds a cause at this stage is going beyond the police record.
What is solid
- Officers responded at 2:13 a.m. on October 31, 2026, to Centreville Road at Rugby Road in the Yorkshire area near Manassas (20111)
- Dmitry Vazquez, 33, of Manassas, driving a 2021 BMW M5 southbound, lost control, crossed into the northbound lanes and struck a 2013 Ford Explorer; he was pronounced dead at the scene
- The Explorer's 21-year-old Leesburg driver and her two passengers — a 22-year-old Leesburg woman and a Leesburg man — were taken to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries
What is only claimed
- Why Vazquez lost control — police have published no cause, and no finding on speed, impairment or distraction has been released
What happens next
Prince William County crash investigators continue the investigation — the witness appeal, with the phone number and tip link above, is the active public step. The next verified developments would be any investigator finding on why the BMW crossed into the northbound lanes, and any update on the three hospitalised people. For Punjabi and other diaspora families in Northern Virginia who use Centreville Road for Manassas-area commutes, the practical point tonight is the one in the police record: this was a single two-vehicle crash at a named intersection, the road investigation is a police matter, and no wider road closure or safety advisory was included in the release.