they have a briefing about 15 now, so we re to get information. the chief of police will be speaking, the county director safety, and the fraternal order of police president. route 5, southbound, it is open, two lanes at the accident scene, which is branch avenue road.rratts northbound lanes are closed from a mile in each direction around surratt s road. northbound, find another way to get north. road will be closed quite time. the big question, not the condition of the officer. the big question, the the officer. investigators are trying to together what happened. this was a violent, horrible accident, a little after 3:00 afternoon, that police car demolished. a lot of people waiting for word of the officern e know, we willw to you.at live from clinton, kris van cleave, abc 7 news. now the incident involving molotov cocktail. godfrey has been following this breaking story live from outside ballstom commons mall. the local police are not the only ones involved in the inves
15 minutes. as we said, the road conditions in the area are quite bad at this point. branch avenue was closed in both directions. but the traffic is getting by, going south on branch avenue. but you can see surratts road is still closed off. there s major problems for people trying to get around in this area. you re asked to avoid it if you can, because this investigation is going to be going on for some time into the evening. but again, prince george s county police officials have scheduled a press conference, expected to happen at 6:15 this afternoon, this evening, involving the prince george s county police official. we do not know what the circumstances were surrounding this crash. what this officer was doing, whether he was involved in any sort of investigation, or simply driving down the road here when this incident happened. so we ll get additional information at 6:15. and we ll bring it to you. reporting live in clinton, darcy spencer, news4. darcy, thank you. the