A tragic event unfolded on the streets of Severn on Monday as two vehicles, a Ford Expedition and a Lexus RX, crashed head-on. According to WMAR2 News, the collision claimed the life of James Thomas Sims and left a young woman and three children injured.
The collision occurred in the late afternoon and Anne Arundel County Police have been tasked with unraveling the moments leading up to the fatal accident, multiple sources confirmed; a 19-year-old driver now battles for her life at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma, the young souls who were her passengers have been mercifully spared a similar fate, sustaining injuries, though serious, are not life-threatening, as detailed by FOX Baltimore.
The deceased driver of the Lexus, identified as Mr. Sims, was a resident of Upper Marlboro and was pronounced dead at the scene, a stark confirmation of the peril that unfolded at the intersection of Telegraph Road and Norcross Lane.
As the investigation into the cause of the crash continues, the surviving injured, the 19-year-old woman - whose identity has not been disclosed - and three children were taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, their lives irrevocably altered by an abrupt tragedy, with the Crash Reconstruction Team of the Anne Arundel County Police Department looking for answers amid the sorrowful aftermath of this collision.
