Montgomery Community Media

The National Transportation Safety Board today issued urgent recommendations to the Federal Transit Administration, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and the American Public Transportation Association calling for improved ventilation procedures during smoke and fire events in tunnels. The NTSB is recommending a nationwide audit of transit agencies by the FTA to assess the state […]

U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski today issued the following statement after the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued safety recommendations for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) system following the Yellow Line smoke incident on January 12 that caused the death of one passenger, critical injuries to two passengers and the hospitalization of 84 […]

UPDATED, Feb. 9, 2:37 p.m. Police said the man fatally shot himself. The situation is over, according to police. UPDATED, Feb. 9, 11 a.m. – Montgomery County Police say the man who barricaded himself on the property of  a landscaping company in Silver Spring is an employee of that company, Brookeville Landscape Supply. Police report that […]

An 88-year-old driver who was injured in a one-car collision on Dec. 28 in Bethesda has died from her injuries, according to Montgomery County Police. Police have identified the driver as Gail Silverstone of Washington, D.C. She passed away on Dec. 30, two days after the crash, police said. According to police, the collision took […]

UPDATED Montgomery County police officers are investigating a fatal collision that occurred Christmas night in Colesville. According to a police account, emergency rescue crews responded to the area of Randolph Road at Hammonton Place for the report of a collision at approximately 9:36 p.m. on Dec 25. Police said the preliminary investigation indicates that a […]

UPDATED Montgomery County Police are investigating a one-vehicle fatal collision that occurred overnight at Hines Road at Blossom View Drive in Olney. Police identified the victim as Lisa Ann Smith, a 43-year-old Olney resident, who was a passenger in the vehicle. The driver is identified by police as 29-year-old Robert Walter Lee of Gaithersburg. Lee […]

A Rockville man who was hit by a car as he crossed Rockville Pike earlier this month has died. According to Montgomery County Police, Scott Ira Magid, 45 of the 200 block of Rollins Avenue in Rockville died Nov. 23 after being hit by a car Nov. 8. Police said at about 6:43 p.m., 1st […]

UPDATED, Nov. 24, 3:45 p.m. –  It was a Kentlands resident who was struck and killed on Nov. 24 while riding his bike along Darnestown Road. Andrew Gerard Malizio, 60, of the 300 block of Hart Road in Gaithersburg, was hit by a Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission utility truck Monday morning as he biked east along […]

UPDATED, Nov. 23. 12:45 p.m.- Police released the following information in the triple fatal crash in Silver Spring Sunday morning. According to the Montgomery County Police press release: At approximately 3:20 a.m., the Emergency Communications Center (9-1-1) received a call for a collision on East-West Highway in the area of Washington Avenue. Officers responded to […]

UPDATED, Nov. 4, 4:30 p.m.- Police have identified the pedestrian who was struck and killed today in Silver Spring as Tschimid Moshkin, 77, of the 13600 block of Montvale Drive in Silver Spring. Mark Wesley Chambre, 64 of Silver Spring was driving the car that hit Moshkin, according to police. UPDATED at 9:24 a.m.-  Montgomery County Police are investigating […]