Montgomery Community Media

UPDATED, Sept 25, 1:30 p.m. – The intersection of Flower Hill Way and Mountain Laurel Lane has been reopened. UPDATED Sept. 26, 12:37 p.m. –  A man is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries today after being struck by a vehicle at Mountain Laurel Lane and Flower Hill Way in the Gaithersburg area of Montgomery County. According […]

You Only Live Once or YOLO is the theme of a new educational safety campaign in Montgomery County to curb pedestrian collisions involving teens. MCPS-TV reports. Visit our PEG partner MCPS TV to view more of its local programming. Related:

UPDATED- Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett, County Council President Craig Rice and Vice President of the Montgomery County Board of Education Patricia O’Neill today announced the launch of a new education program to reduce pedestrian crashes involving teens. Other speakers included: Montgomery County Council members Cherri Branson and Roger Berliner, Seneca Valley High School Principal Marc […]

Montgomery County police and fire rescue crews are on the scene of a pedestrian struck in Gaithersburg. It happened near Quince Orchard Road at I-270. According to an alert Gaithersburg message, Quince Orchard Road is closed at I-270 because of the accident. Commuters are advised to seek an alternative route. No other information has been […]

UPDATED 9.7.14 Montgomery County Police are investigating the death of a male who was struck by a CSX freight train in Gaithersburg last night. According to a police account, at 7:31 p.m. on Sept. 6, a call was received from CSX concerning a person possibly struck by a CSX train on the tracks just past Oakmont […]

UPDATED: Aug. 11 at 9 a.m. The 24-year-old Bethesda man hit by a car while trying to cross Rockville Pike in North Bethesda Aug. 6 died over the weekend. Montgomery County Police said Matthew Aaron Papirmeister succumbed to his injuries over the weekend at Suburban Hospital. ORIGINAL: It happened at approximately 11:15 p.m. at the intersection of Rockville […]

Detectives from the Montgomery County Police – Collision Reconstruction Unit are investigating a fatal pedestrian collision that occurred on Aug. 3rd in Rockville. Police said the pedestrian, identified as Roberto Flores, 21, died from his injuries on Aug. 4 at Shady Grove Hospital. According to a police account, on Sunday, August 3, at 11:38 p.m., […]

Montgomery County emergency medical services crews transported a 14-year-old boy to the hospital as a priority one patient after he was struck by a vehicle on June 12 in Bethesda. The pedestrian accident happened at Rosemary Hills Drive and East West Highway. Police shut down East West Highway in both directions while the investigation was […]

UPDATED: Detectives from the Collision Reconstruction Unit continue to investigate a pedestrian collision that occurred last night and involved a marked Montgomery County Police cruiser. The officer involved in the collision is being identified as Officer Drew Soldano, a seven-year veteran of the Department and currently assigned to the 6th District patrol division.  Following protocol, Officer Soldano is […]

Montgomery County police are continuing to investigate a fatal collision involving a pedestrian and a Ride-On bus that occurred April 29 in Wheaton at the intersection of Randolph Road and Middlevale Lane. According to the police, this morning, the pedestrian, Tsehay Demeke Woldemanuel, age 34, of the 1500 block of Billman Lane in Silver Spring […]