A 13-year-old girl from North East died after being struck by a car on Route 272 near Rogers Road in Elkton on Thursday morning. Police believe she was walking to school. She was taken to a hospital, where she later died, according to Daily Voice’s account of the Maryland State Police investigation.
Police say the driver initially left the scene. Investigators later located a 2011 Mini Cooper and its driver at a nearby business complex, and detained the driver. As of Thursday, police had not publicly identified the driver; charges were pending further investigation and consultation with the Cecil County State’s Attorney’s Office. The Maryland State Police Crash Team is investigating how the collision occurred, Daily Voice reported.
Route 272 context
The crash occurred on a road with a documented history of collisions, though the available figures are for a broader area and do not describe conditions at Rogers Road. WILMAPCO’s November 2024 MD-272 Corridor Plan report recorded 71 crashes on MD-272 within its study area in 2023, 20 resulting in injury. The report recorded no traffic-related fatalities in the broader study area that year.
There has also been a separate fatal pedestrian crash on MD 272: in an October 11, 2021 release, Maryland State Police described a pedestrian fatality near Lums Road in North East. That earlier incident was at a different location and involved a southbound Chevrolet. The two cases are examples, not evidence of a shared cause or an increase in crashes.
