Accident, there is at least one fertility taliban from the accident, very tragic. This is eastwest highway, near the entrance is to prince georges. This is near the outback steakhouse. We are waiting official confirmation from the police how the accident happened, but there is a car in the intersection smashed up. On the sidewalk, to my right there is a motorcycle on the sidewalk. One of the investigating officers there. A few minutes ago i spoke with a witness who had just given his account to the police. Here is what he said. The motorcycle was coming westbound on eastwest highway, smashed into the car that you saw in the intersection. The driver of the motorcycle he said went airborne, the motorcycle continued up onto the sidewalk, near the crosswalk where there was a family, a group of people, both adults and children, standing. Motorcycle crashed into those folks and knock them into a tray. He said at least one of them was critically injured. He saw fire and rescue folks performin
A motorcycle apparently hit that car and we are going to pan over and show you the distance. It went over the car. It crashed into a group of pedestrians waiting for the traffic light to cross. There is a family involved. Several people were injured including two children. One person has died as a result of this crash. We are going to show you some closeup videotapes to get an idea of how much damage was done here. This all unfolded late this afternoon as people were coming back on the mall. This mall is now across from the metro station so its a busy station. The bake was going west on east west highway when it struck that car making a left turn. We hope to get more details coming up in an hour or so as to who exactly was involved with there. But a horrific accident here on memorial day weekend. And right now, a section of east west highway going west near the ball is closed down. The weather this Holiday Weekend is off to a great start. Lets find out from first alert meteorologist ho
Live at the scene with more on the victims, including that child. Hank, what have you learned . Well, the childs name has not yet been released nor has the familys name been released. There were several members of his family with him. The accident happened here on east west highway by the entrance to the mall of prince georges, which is behind me here. That car was right in the middle of the road trying to make a left hand turn. The motorcycle was going westbound, ran right into it, flew over the car. The young child who was killed was standing with family members at the curve, waiting to cross the street. This man saw the crash. Got on the motorcycle, was coming down, and the woman cut him off. He flipped. Watch him fly up in the air and he flipped. At the time, i didnt see there were other people on the ground. I saw the one guy. Police werent sure how many people were standing on the corner when the motorcycle slammed into the pavement and into the crowd. The belongings spread acros
Any better. We have the local news, too. We will start off with weather and another georgous day . Its going to be warmer than yesterday. Thats the only change. Everything else about the weather remains pretty consistent. 69 degrees at 10 00 a. M. 79 degrees at one. So already at 7 00 its going to be warmer than our High Temperature yesterday, which was 75. We will be at 83 degrees by 4 00. Thats dropping from our High Temperature of 84, which we will reach at 3 00. Still 80 degrees by seven. Its going to be a warm cookout or barbecue, if that is in your plans for this afternoon. 50 degrees in leesburg. Still 60 inwashington. 54 at gaithersburg and andrews. The satellite and radar nothing going on. Thats the way its going to stay all day long. I will update you on the potential for thunderstorms coming up in the sevenday forecast. Lowtomid 80s. Cooler at the beach. Here is a live look at the beach. How do you like that . This is ocean city, maryland. One of the busiest weekends of the