A 28-year-old Suitland man is dead after a collision involving the dirt bike he was riding and a sedan on a busy stretch of Oxon Hill roadway on October 22, 2026, and police still don't know what caused the crash. James Youngerman died at a hospital several hours after the collision, which happened in the 6600 block of Saint Barnabas Road.
Officers responded to the scene at approximately 6:35 p.m. on Thursday after a collision involving a sedan and a dirt bike, according to WJLA. The driver of the sedan was not injured and remained at the scene, while Youngerman was taken to a hospital, where he died several hours later.
Investigators Still Piecing Together What Happened
Authorities are still working to determine what caused the crash, the station's report notes. The Prince George's County Police Department has logged the fatal crash as case number 26-0056517.
Police are asking anyone who witnessed the crash or who has dashcam or home surveillance footage from the area to come forward. Investigators can be reached at 301-731-4422 as they work to reconstruct the sequence of events that led to Youngerman's death.
A Dangerous Stretch of Road in a County With Grim Numbers
Saint Barnabas Road is no stranger to tragedy. The Prince George's County Police Department has identified it as one of the county's most common locations for fatal crashes, according to The Daily Record. The county had recorded 34 traffic deaths as of May 2025, the most of any jurisdiction in Maryland at that point in the year, after recording 91 fatalities in 2024 — its lowest total in recent years but still the state's highest.
By comparison, Baltimore County had reported 12 traffic fatalities and Montgomery County 10 as of May 2025, per the same Daily Record analysis. The gap has persisted into this year: Prince George's County had already recorded 64 of Maryland's 339 overall roadway fatalities in 2026, the most of any county statewide, according to The Baltimore Banner.
Part of a Wider Pattern of Fatal Rides
Motorcyclists and dirt bike riders have made up a disproportionate share of those deaths. Maryland had recorded 62 motorcyclist deaths in 2026, representing more than 18% of all roadway fatalities statewide, the Banner reports, with Prince George's County logging seven of those deaths — the third-highest total among Maryland jurisdictions cited in that analysis. Statewide, Maryland had already seen more than 79,000 total crashes this year, averaging more than 274 crashes per day.
A separate fatal motorcycle crash occurred Sunday morning at New Hampshire Avenue and Sheridan Street in Chillum, according to FOX Baltimore.
For now, the cause of Thursday's crash in Oxon Hill remains under investigation. Anyone with information is urged to contact the Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit as detectives work to piece together exactly what happened before Youngerman's death.
