{"id":30511,"date":"2025-12-29T14:54:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/?p=30511"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:59:57","slug":"police-investigating-fatal-pedestrian-crash-in-harford-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2025\/12\/29\/police-investigating-fatal-pedestrian-crash-in-harford-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Investigating Fatal Pedestrian Crash in Harford County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(BELCAMP, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police are investigating a fatal pedestrian crash that occurred Sunday night in Harford County.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased is an 11-year-old female. The juvenile was transported to a local trauma center by Maryland State Police Aviation Command where she was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 5 p.m. on December 28, troopers from the Maryland State Police Bel Air Barrack responded to the area of northbound Riverside Parkway (MD 543) at Church Creek Road for a report of a pedestrian-involved crash. The preliminary investigation indicates that a Jeep Grand Cherokee was traveling northbound on MD 543 on a green light when the juvenile attempted to cross MD 543 in the crosswalk and was subsequently struck by the jeep. No other injuries were reported on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The driver remained at the scene following the crash. Investigators do not believe alcohol was a contributing factor.<\/p>\n<p>Road closures lasted for approximately one and a half hours. Assistance on scene was provided by the Maryland State Police Bel Air and JFK barracks, the Harford County Sheriff\u2019s Office, and the Harford County Department of Emergency Services.<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland State Police Bel Air Barrack is leading the active and ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(BELCAMP, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police are investigating a fatal pedestrian crash that occurred Sunday night in Harford County. The deceased is an 11-year-old female. The juvenile was transported to a local trauma center by Maryland State Police Aviation Command where she was pronounced deceased. Shortly after 5 p.m. on December 28, troopers from the<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2025\/12\/29\/police-investigating-fatal-pedestrian-crash-in-harford-county\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[9,16,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barracksd-bel-air","category-barracksm-jfk-memorial-highway","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30511","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30511"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30516,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30511\/revisions\/30516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}