{"id":24839,"date":"2022-06-08T13:35:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T17:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/?p=24839"},"modified":"2022-06-08T13:56:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T17:56:08","slug":"maryland-state-police-investigating-fatal-two-vehicle-crash-in-prince-georges-county-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2022\/06\/08\/maryland-state-police-investigating-fatal-two-vehicle-crash-in-prince-georges-county-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Police Investigating Fatal Two-Vehicle Crash In Prince George&#8217;s County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre style=\"background: white\">\u00a0<\/pre>\n<pre style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/pre>\n<p>(FORESTVILLE, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police are investigating a fatal two-vehicle crash that occurred early this morning in Prince George\u2019s County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before 3:30 a.m., troopers from the Maryland State Police Forestville Barrack responded to the area of northbound I-495 at Central Avenue for a two-vehicle crash. \u00a0According to a preliminary investigation, a Lincoln Navigator, driven by Donisha Alexus Leatherwood, 30, of Hyattsville, Maryland, began traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of I-495.<\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln crashed into a Buick Enclave, which was traveling north in the northbound lanes on I-495. The driver of the Buick, identified as Mignon Allison Kirksey, 51, of Brandywine, Maryland, was pronounced deceased at the scene. Leatherwood was transported by ambulance to an area hospital for treatment of her injuries. The Maryland State Police Crash Team is investigating the incident. The road was closed for about six hours after the crash.<\/p>\n<p>No charges have been filed at this team in this case after investigators consulted with the Prince George\u2019s County State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office. Once the Crash Team completes its investigation, they will turn their findings over to the Prince George\u2019s County State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office, which will make the ultimate decision on what charges to pursue in this case.<\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0###<\/p>\n<p>CONTACT: Office of Media Communications, <a href=\"mailto:msp.media@maryland.gov\">msp.media@maryland.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 (FORESTVILLE, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police are investigating a fatal two-vehicle crash that occurred early this morning in Prince George\u2019s County.\u00a0 Shortly before 3:30 a.m., troopers from the Maryland State Police Forestville Barrack responded to the area of northbound I-495 at Central Avenue for a two-vehicle crash. \u00a0According to a preliminary investigation, a<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2022\/06\/08\/maryland-state-police-investigating-fatal-two-vehicle-crash-in-prince-georges-county-8\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barracksl-forestville","category-press-releases","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24839","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\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24839"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24856,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24839\/revisions\/24856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}