A 67-year-old Rockville man has died following a collision involving a Montgomery County Ride On bus, and detectives are now trying to piece together what happened. Danny Cornell Jackson was identified as the victim in a fatal crash that Montgomery County Police say is under active investigation by specialized crash investigators.
The Montgomery County Department of Police
announced the investigation in a post, stating that “Detectives from the Montgomery County Department of Police – Collision Reconstruction Unit are investigating a fatal collision involving a Ride On bus that claimed the life of 67-year-old Danny Cornell Jackson of Rockville.” The announcement was posted Tuesday, and no further details about the time, location, or circumstances of the crash have been released.
The department's Collision Reconstruction Unit typically handles serious and fatal crashes, examining physical evidence from the scene to determine exactly how such incidents unfold. No additional information about the bus driver, any passengers, or other vehicles involved in Jackson's case has been made public at this time.
Not the First Fatal Ride On Bus Crash This Year
Jackson's death is not the only fatal collision involving a Ride On bus reported in Montgomery County this year. On May 1, a separate crash killed 59-year-old Alexander Junior Norris of Gaithersburg at the intersection of Midcounty Highway and Woodfield Road, according to MyMCMedia. Nothing in the available record connects that earlier crash to the one that killed Jackson.
In the May incident, police said a westbound 2014 Ride On bus collided with a southbound 2013 Kia Soul driven by Norris, who received life-saving efforts at the scene but was pronounced dead, the outlet reported. The bus driver in that crash was uninjured, and no passengers were on board the bus at the time, per the same account.
County Tracks Crash Data, Though No Trend Is Confirmed
Montgomery County maintains a Fatal Crash Map dataset that compiles information on collisions across county and local roadways, drawing on the Maryland State Police's Automated Crash Reporting System and reports filed by local and state police agencies, according to the Montgomery County Open Data Portal. The dataset exists as a public resource, though the materials reviewed do not include specific figures that would indicate whether fatal bus-involved collisions are increasing, decreasing, or holding steady countywide.
Montgomery County Police have noted that their social media accounts are not monitored around the clock, and the department asks residents not to use platforms like X to report incidents, directing them instead to call 301-279-8000 or 911. The investigation into Jackson's death remains ongoing, and no further updates have been released as of Tuesday.
