{"id":28338,"date":"2024-02-05T10:34:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T15:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/?p=28338"},"modified":"2024-02-05T10:34:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T15:34:31","slug":"maryland-state-police-investigating-fatal-two-vehicle-crash-in-st-marys-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2024\/02\/05\/maryland-state-police-investigating-fatal-two-vehicle-crash-in-st-marys-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Police Investigating Fatal Two-Vehicle Crash In St. Mary&#8217;s County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(MECHANICSVILLE, MD)<strong> \u2013 <\/strong>Maryland State Police are investigating a fatal two-vehicle crash that occurred Saturday afternoon in St. Mary\u2019s County.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased is identified as Thomas Christiani, 63, of Mechanicsville, Maryland. Christiani was the driver and sole occupant of a Honda motorcycle involved in the crash. He was pronounced deceased on the scene. No other injuries were reported at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before 4 p.m. on Saturday, troopers from the Maryland State Police Leonardtown Barrack responded to the area of Mechanicsville Road and Asher Road for a report of a two-vehicle crash. According to a preliminary investigation, the motorcycle, operated by Christiani, was traveling south on Mechanicsville Road, when for unknown reasons, struck a delivery van, attempting to turn into a residential driveway. Investigators do not believe that impaired driving is a factor in this crash.<\/p>\n<p>Mechanicsville Road was closed for more than 4 hours following the crash. Personnel from Maryland State Police Helicopter Trooper 2 \u2013 Washington, based at Joint Base Andrews in Camp Springs, Maryland, responded to the scene to assist.<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland State Police Crash Team continues to investigate the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>CONTACT: Maryland State Police Office of Communications, <a href=\"mailto:msp.media@maryland.gov\">msp.media@maryland.gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(MECHANICSVILLE, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police are investigating a fatal two-vehicle crash that occurred Saturday afternoon in St. Mary\u2019s County. The deceased is identified as Thomas Christiani, 63, of Mechanicsville, Maryland. Christiani was the driver and sole occupant of a Honda motorcycle involved in the crash. He was pronounced deceased on the scene. No other<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2024\/02\/05\/maryland-state-police-investigating-fatal-two-vehicle-crash-in-st-marys-county\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"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":[23,28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barrackst-leonardtown","category-press-releases","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28338","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\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28339,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28338\/revisions\/28339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}