(BOWIE, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police are continuing the investigation into a traffic crash this morning in Prince George\u2019s County that killed one person and injured another.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The deceased victim is identified as Diamond T. Hayes, 23, of Mitchellville, Md.\u00a0 She was the driver and sole occupant of a 2020 Nissan Versa.\u00a0 Hayes was transported from the scene by Prince George\u2019s County ambulance personnel to the University of Maryland Prince George\u2019s Hospital Center, where she later died.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The injured victim is identified as James A. Christian, 75, of Upper Marlboro, Md.\u00a0 He was the driver and sole occupant of a 2019 Ford Explorer.\u00a0 He was transported by ambulance to the same hospital for treatment of his injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A third person, identified as Charles M. Schmitt, 55, of Edgewater, Md., was driving a 2011 Ford truck, was also involved.\u00a0 He reported no injuries and drove his vehicle from the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the preliminary investigation, shortly after 7:35 a.m. today, troopers from the Forestville Barrack responded to the report of a traffic crash on the westbound side of Central Avenue at Watkins Park Drive.\u00a0 When troopers arrived, they found the three vehicles described above had been involved in the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The preliminary investigation indicates the vehicles driven by Christian and Schmitt were stopped for a red traffic signal at the intersection of westbound Central Avenue and Watkins Park Drive.\u00a0 According to investigators, Hayes was traveling in the same direction, approaching the stopped vehicles, when the light changed and she made an abrupt lane change, striking the rear of the Ford Explorer.\u00a0 Hayes then apparently lost control of her vehicle and struck the Ford truck.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Maryland State Police Crash Team responded and is conducting a detailed crash investigation.\u00a0 It is unknown at this time what the cause and contributing factors involved in the crash were.\u00a0 The investigation is continuing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(BOWIE, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police are continuing the investigation into a traffic crash this morning in Prince George\u2019s County that killed one person and injured another.\u00a0 The deceased victim is identified as Diamond T. Hayes, 23, of Mitchellville, Md.\u00a0 She was the driver and sole occupant of a 2020 Nissan Versa.\u00a0 Hayes was transported Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barracksl-forestville","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21722,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21713\/revisions\/21722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}