Crash near Washinghton left 4 dead and 14 others injured

A congregation van bringing grown-ups and Children through a suburb of the country's capital slammed into a pickup truck that crossed into its way, and the pickup truck burst into blazes in a mishap that Claimed four lives and left 14 others severely harmed, authorities said.....continue to read more


A child was among the dead Sunday and authorities said the wounds extended from genuine to basic in the Maryland group of Hyattsville only upper east of Washington, D.C.

Witnesses say individuals kept running with flame quenchers from their homes however could do little to put out tall flares that rose over the pickup truck before firefighters arrived and put out the burst. Authorities said the flame was kept to the pickup truck, whose driver kicked the bucket alongside two grown-ups and a child in the van.

Fire division representative Mark Brady in Maryland's Prince George's County called the accident scene and the quantities of casualties, including kids, one of the most exceedingly awful in his 40-year vocation. He said firefighters were among those questioned by instructors a short time later in view of the size of the accident - "such a large number of individuals, such a large number of wounds and fatalities."