Woman dies after Rockville crash
An Olney woman died on the way to the hospital after a Wednesday morning traffic accident in Rockville.
Montgomery County police said 61-year-old Patricia Greer Parks was driving her 2000 Chrysler Sebring behind a 2005 Ford Taurus on Rockville Pike near Old Georgetown Road and struck the Taurus when it was slowing down at about 7:35 a.m.
While officers were talking with the two drivers, Parks began complaining of pain. She lost consciousness in an ambulance and was pronounced dead at a hospital, authorities said. Officer Rebecca Innocenti, a police spokeswoman, said she didn’t know what type of pain Parks was suffering.
The Taurus driver, 41-year-old Ellen Gidharry, of Rockville, was taken to a hospital for observation, Innocenti said.
Boy, 3, fatally struck by SUV
A 3-year-old boy was fatally struck by a vehicle in Charles County.
The Charles County Sheriff’s Office identified the child as Elias Masanaa Charles-Kabongo, of Waldorf.
Charles-Kabongo had been sitting in the car seat in the backseat of his mother’s car as she was driving toward her home at about 2 p.m. Tuesday. Witnesses told authorities that when the mother pulled over on the 10500 block of Sugarberry Street and briefly left the car to give a piece of mail to a postal worker, Charles-Kabongo got out of his car seat.
Charles-Kabongo then went behind the car, walked into the road and was struck by an oncoming SUV, authorities said.
Serious crime up in Fairfax City
Serious crimes increased slightly in Fairfax City in 2011, from 2010, according to police data.
The number of reported rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults, burglaries and larcenies all increased from 2010 to 2011. Motor vehicle thefts were down by more than half from 2010 reports, and there were no murders either year.
— Emily Babay and Naomi Jagoda
