Loudoun County, Virginia’s Board of Supervisors is set to approve the use of eminent domain to acquire land to build a new four-way signalized intersection, near the site of the 2017 crash that killed Erin Kaplan , and severely injured several members of her family.

Kaplan was killed while driving along winding Evergreen Mills Road outside Leesburg, when an out-of-control, dilapidated food truck ran the stop sign on Watson Road and plowed into her station wagon. The truck was driven by Tony Dane, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and other charges related to failing to care for the bus, which prosecutors called “a ticking time bomb.”

Last year the county began acquiring land to build a new intersection, which would involve rerouting Watson Road several hundred feet up th

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