Thuy Le Nguyen

Thuy Le Nguyen was a 22-year-old woman who was fatally injured when she was struck by a car as she tried to cross Route 50 at Patrick Henry Drive near the Seven Corners Shopping Center in Falls Church on the evening of January 6, 1980.[1]

Nguyen was taken to Fairfax Hospital, where she lingered, brain-dead, in a coma until she died on January 15.[2]

She had grown up in a middle class family in Saigon, Vietnam but fled the country following the communist takeover in 1975. At the time of her death, she was working at Arlington's Indo-Chinese Cooperative Education Program helping other Vietnamese refugees, and had just moved into a new apartment with her brother Tuan near the University of Maryland, where he was a student.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Pedestrians Injured Crossing Route 50"Evening Star, 7 Jan. 1980, Three Star HOME FINAL, p. 54. NewsBank. Accessed 5 Jan. 2018.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kaufman, Marc. "Viet Tragedy: A New Start, Abrupt End" Evening Star, 16 Jan. 1980, Three Star NIGHT FINAL, p. 56, 63. NewsBank. Accessed 5 Jan. 2018.