Fiery car crash kills two children
Two children died in a fiery car crash Friday night in Prince George’s County. Three vehicles crashed near Route 50 and Martin Luther King Jr. Highway around 9:35 p.m.
Emergency personnel arrived to find injured four adults and two children trapped in one of the cars, which had caught fire.
Two off-duty police officers and a volunteer firefighter tried to rescue the children, but were unable to do so due to the extreme heat, according to county police spokesman Paul Cruz.
The four adults were taken to local hospital and treated for non-life threatening injuries.
The accident is under investigation.
Occupy DC protesters ticketed, arrested
Three Occupy DC protesters were ticketed and three others arrested outside the Walter E. Washington Convention Center Friday night — the first arrests of Occupy DC participants by the Metropolitan Police Department.
Protesters were blocking the streets outside the conference center, where Americans For Prosperity, a conservative group, was holding its Defending the American Dream Summit 2011.
Police said they arrested the three for failing to obey officers’ repeated instructions to clear the road.
Police also ticketed three different protesters after a driver tried to make his way through the crowd, hitting at least two. Police said the driver thought he saw a gap in the crowd and had a green light and that the protesters jumped in front of his car. Protesters at McPherson Square Saturday, who said they saw the incident, said the man intentionally hit the pedestrians. The driver was not ticketed.
“The cops stopped [the driver], but they just let him go. It was just like they let it happen,” said protester Ashton Phillips, who also said an officer pulled out a night stick near him. The three injured protesters “complained of pain” and were taken to a local hospital, where they were treated and released, according to police spokesman Officer Araz Alali. – Liz Essley
– Liz Essley
