The sole surviving passenger of a crash that killed three young people in Olney said the driver had been drinking and was speeding when his car struck a telephone pole and two trees early Sunday morning, a top prosecutor said. Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy said Monday that Kevin Coffay and his four passengers had been to two parties on Saturday night before the fatal wreck that killed three passengers and sent the fourth to the hospital.
Coffay, 20, was driving a 2007 Toyota Corolla when it veered off the right side of Olney Laytonsville Road at 3:11 a.m. Sunday. McCarthy said that police got there “almost instantly,” but Coffay had already fled on foot. Twice officers spotted Coffay, but he “continued to flee.” They found him later in the driveway of his residence on Cutlass Drive in Rockville. Toxicology reports on Coffay were not yet available Monday.
