Northbound Interstate I-5 Rest Areas (14) Click the rest area links below.Ĭalifornia Rest Areas at a Glance List California Interstate Rest Areas Some are closed due to maintenance issues, its always best to have a alternate rest stop just in case. They are maintained and funded by Caltrans. There are several that have RV dump station facilities, where RVers may empty their sewage holding tanks. Although many have information kiosks, vending machinesĪnd picnic areas. Still, I wouldn't be on the road at 3 a.m."ĬAPTION: Virginia state troopers inspect an I-95 rest area where a Pennsylvania man was shot to death in the men's bathroom.California rest areas are typically roadside facilities that provide at a minimum parking and restrooms. "You have to be aware of the things going on around you. "It's a sad commentary on the people today," said Pearl Pollak, 69. Pearl and Joseph Pollak stopped at a rest area nearby as they headed to their home in North Carolina. The body was removed from the restroom about 7 a.m. The restroom building was examined for several hours by a state police evidence collection team.
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There have been some purse-snatchings at highway rest stops in Virginia during the last year, Caldwell said, and police have urged the state to install video cameras at rest stops because of such crimes.īut, she said, "none of the purse-snatchings involved violence."Īs early morning commuters whizzed by on I-95 yesterday, investigators scoured the rest area with the help of a dog, searching for clues. In addition, state troopers patrol the rest area, "several times an hour, if possible," Caldwell said. State police wouldn't say whether the worker on duty heard or saw anything that could be related to the crime. "Any type of violence in a rest area in Virginia is very, very unusual," said Lucy Caldwell, spokeswoman for the Virginia State Police.Ĭaldwell said the Dale City rest area is staffed round-the-clock by workers on contract with the Virginia Department of Transportation. State police in Virginia said they couldn't recall any previous slayings at interstate rest areas there, and Maryland State Police said there haven't been any in that state in at least five years. Police said they aren't sure whether he was attacked by one person or more, or what state the possible getaway car was registered in. They wouldn't say whether money or other property was taken from him. Investigators said the Pennsylvania man may have been targeted for robbery because he was driving an expensive car. Similar concerns were voiced in 1993, when a British tourist was murdered at a highway rest area in north Florida and basketball star Michael Jordan's father was slain as he slept in his car just off I-95 in North Carolina.
"You never know when something like this will happen." "It puts a real sense of soberness into you," said Chuchik, who already restricts his family's car travel to daylight hours. He was headed toward Dulles International Airport and pulled into the Dale City rest area shortly after police reopened it at 10 a.m. It's something that is going to ratchet up everyone's uneasiness." "Incidents like this undercut that feeling of security we have. "People trust that because rest stops along I-95 are generally well-lit and near a road that is always busy, that they're relatively safe," said Lon Anderson, spokesman for AAA Potomac. It also prompted warnings that travelers shouldn't let their guard down at freeway rest areas. The slaying, which state police believe to be the first at an interstate rest area in Virginia, shook motorists as the holiday travel season got underway. Some remembered seeing a boxy silver or gray car, possibly a Toyota Camry or Chevrolet Cavalier, speed out of the rest area onto northbound I-95. Later, motorists told investigators they heard several pops that could have been gunfire but didn't realize that at the time. When he didn't come out after several minutes, another sister and the man's niece walked into the one-story brick building to find he'd been shot several times.
The 51-year-old man, whose name was not released, helped his disabled sister get from his white Cadillac to the women's restroom, authorities said, and then went into the men's room. The four relatives were headed home to York, Pa., after visiting family in South Carolina and pulled into the rest area near Dale City about 3 a.m. By Steve Vogel Leef Smith December 19, 1996Ī Pennsylvania man was shot dead yesterday morning when he and family members stopped to use the bathroom at a rest area on Interstate 95 in Prince William County, in what police say was an apparent attempt to rob him.
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