A three-vehicle head-on collision on Point Lookout Road near Hill's Store Bar and Grille in Mechanicsville left four people injured Friday afternoon, with one patient airlifted by Maryland State Police helicopter to a trauma center. The crash happened around 1:08 p.m. in the 29900 block of the roadway, a stretch of Southern Maryland that has seen a string of serious wrecks in recent weeks.
According to The BayNet, four patients were initially reported at the scene after emergency crews arrived to find the head-on wreck. Separate reporting from Southern Maryland News Net indicates that Mechanicsville Volunteer Rescue Squad's Paramedic Ambulance 296 found the head-on collision in the area and requested a rescue assignment, with EMS personnel reporting a three-vehicle collision with four patients for evaluation and requesting a helicopter to land nearby.
Medevac and Hospital Transports
Maryland State Police Aviation Command's Trooper 7 landed near the scene and airlifted one patient to University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center, per the station's report. Southern Maryland News Net identifies that patient as a 60-year-old man. A second patient was transported to the same trauma center by ground ambulance, while at least one other patient was taken to MedStar St. Mary's Hospital, the station's report notes.
Southern Maryland News Net's account describes two additional patients being transported by ambulance to University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center, along with a fourth patient taken to an area hospital whose injuries were described as non-life-threatening. The collision remains under investigation, according to the same account.
A Rough Stretch of Road
Friday's crash is the latest in a series of serious collisions along Point Lookout Road in St. Mary's County. A Southern Maryland Chronicle report from September counted four serious crashes on the same road within a single week, including a rollover that left an SUV overturned against a tree with one occupant trapped inside while two others managed to get out on their own. In that incident, a Maryland State Police helicopter flew the extricated occupant to a trauma center while the other two were treated and taken to area hospitals by ground, the outlet reported.
That same cluster of crashes included a September 3 collision at Point Lookout Road and St. Andrew's Church Road involving a passenger vehicle and a St. Mary's County school bus, in which one adult had to be freed by crews, and a September 4 wreck at Point Lookout Road and Loveville Road that left an SUV driver pinned and seriously injured before she was flown to a trauma center, per the Southern Maryland Chronicle.
Other Recent Incidents Nearby
Point Lookout Road, also known as Route 5, has continued to see trouble into October. A two-vehicle crash at Deer Wood Park Drive in Leonardtown on October 21 left two people requiring medical attention, with one patient taken by ambulance to a hospital helipad to meet Trooper 7 for a planned flight to a trauma center and the second transported to MedStar St. Mary's Hospital, The BayNet reported separately. Days earlier, on October 16, an 81-year-old woman was taken to a hospital after a crash near St. Joseph Catholic Church in Mechanicsville, according to localaccidentreports.com.
No further details on the cause of Friday's crash or the condition of those injured had been released as the investigation continued.
