Montgomery Community Media

Montgomery County police officers are investigating a fatal collision that happened Wednesday afternoon in the Burtonsville area. Officers and Fire and Rescue personnel responded to reports of a collision in the Sandy Spring and Old Columbia Pike area shortly after 4 p.m. According to a preliminary investigation, a 1996 Saturn SL, travelling eastbound on Sandy Spring […]

Montgomery County Councilmember Craig Rice, chair of the Council’s Education Committee, issued the following statement today after learning that three Clarksburg High School students were killed in a vehicle accident late Tuesday night on Burnt Hill Road near Damascus: “Today was to be a day filled with joy in Clarksburg as the entire community was […]

A car crashed through an apartment building in Gaithersburg, Wednesday morning, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services Spokesperson Pete Piringer. It happened at  11 a.m. and at King James Way, Piringer said. 20 residents have been displaced, he said. There is also structural damage, but no injuries were reported, Piringer said. (11a) Car […]

Maryland State Police are investigating a fatal car collision that occurred early Thursday morning on northbound Interstate 270 near Clarksburg Road/MD 121. Maryland State Police said that at 2:35 a.m., they received phone calls  about a disabled vehicle, a blue Toyota Yaris, in one of the travel lanes of the roadway. Then about five minutes […]

Montgomery County police officers are investigating a single-vehicle collision that happened on Emory Lane on Wednesday, March 16. According to police, it happened around 11:30 p.m., when officers attempted to stop a light colored 2011 Toyota Camry on southbound Layhill Road, near Georgia Ave. Police say the car did not stop and officers followed the […]

David and Pamela Murk, the parents of 18-year-old Alex Murk who died in a car crash on June 25 in Potomac, released a statement on Sept. 21 in response to a Montgomery County police report. The crash also killed Calvin Li, 18, of Rockville. Murk and Li were both members of Wootton High School’s class of […]

The Montgomery County Police Department held a news conference on Friday to discuss the death investigation of 5-year-old Daniel Dana, who was found in a fiery car crash on June 16 at the intersection of Sam Eig Highway and Fields Road in Gaithersburg. You can watch the police news conference, below: According to Captain Darren […]

Eric Guerci, the new Student Member of the Board of Education, shared his thoughts about the car crash that killed two recent graduates from Wootton High School in this MyMCMedia Extra. Related:

“It was one bad mistake that turned our lives upside down and I no longer have my son.” Those were the words from Alexander Murk’s father to the hundreds of his Wootton classmates who gathered to mourn Alex, 18 of Potomac and Calvin Jia-Xing Li, 18 of Rockville who both died when the car they […]

UPDATED July 15, 2:30 p.m.The driver of a car that struck a tree off of  Beach Drive and Wyndale Road in Chevy Chase has died. Police say Malcolm Lawrence Gardner, 25, of the 4300 block of 14th Street NW in Washington, D.C.  was driving his Mini Cooper  south on Beach Drive July 11 when the vehicle crossed […]