Residents Displaced After Vehicle Hits Apartment Building

Via MCFRS Chief Spokesperson Pete Piringer.

A few residents were displaced after a vehicle struck an apartment building in Gaithersburg, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service (MCFRS) officials said.

The collision occurred around 9:15 p.m. Thursday night at 22 Crestwood Drive, MCFRS Chief Spokesperson Pete Piringer reported on Twitter. The driver was alone in the vehicle, Battalion Chief Steve Mann said, and was taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

There were no other injuries.

ICYMI (~915p 7/8) 22 Crestwood Dr, off N Summit Av, Gburg, collision, vehicle into apt bldg, MCFRS on the scene of a collision with a vehicle into an apartment building, Driver of vehicle transported to area hospital w/NLT injuries. A few bldg occupants displaced, no other injury pic.twitter.com/CYOLQOsluj

— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) July 9, 2021

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