A man succumbed to his injuries after a two-vehicle crash in Gaithersburg on Tuesday morning.
Montgomery County Fire and Rescue officials say emergency crews responded to Shady Grove Road between Epsilon Drive and Briardale Road near Crabbs Branch Way around 5:45 a.m. for the report of a crash involving a box truck and a sedan.
The driver of the sedan was trapped inside the vehicle, where he succumbed to his traumatic injuries.
MCFRS officials say the box truck went off the road and down a wooded embankment where it flipped over. The injured driver was extricated and transported to a local hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Some roads and ramps in the area were closed. Montgomery County Police continue to investigate this crash.
Update: RT @mcpnews Collision on Shady Grove Rd now FATAL. Victim is adult male. @mcfrs NOTE: Truck driver was trapped & extricated & transported by @MCFRS_EMIHS Pri3, NLT; otherwise, sedan driver trapped w/ traumatic injury, succumbed to injury, no transport, PD investigating https://t.co/vQsW3U7FQa pic.twitter.com/h3GBJyazmt
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) November 10, 2020
Collision Reconstruction Unit en route to serious collision on Shady Grove Rd near ramps for I-370 & ICC in Gaithersburg. Shady Grove Rd between Crabbs Branch Way and the ramps for I370 & ICC is CLOSED.
Call rcvd at 5:45 am.
Updates posted as info is confirmed.
— Montgomery County Department of Police (@mcpnews) November 10, 2020
Update – Shady Grove Road, driver of truck was extricated, @MCFRS_EMIHS evacuated Pri3 NLT injury, patient removed via rope & rigging (slope evacuation), NOTE: occupant of other vehicle suffered traumatic injury, some roads/ramps in area CLOSED https://t.co/aGXanNLziI pic.twitter.com/zGI4NJXuKA
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) November 10, 2020
