Crime & Safety
Driver Injured When Car Falls 40 Feet From MoCo Parking Garage
Authorities said the car went through a railing on the parking structure's fifth floor before plunging to pavement below.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD — A person suffered only minor injuries when the car they were in plunged from the fifth floor of a parking garage in Friendship Heights, authorities said.
According to Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service spokesperson Pete Piringer, the incident happened around 8:20 a.m. Wednesday at The Barlow, a medical office building at 5454 Wisconsin Ave.
Piringer said the vehicle crashed through a railing of The Barlow’s parking structure, falling 40 feet before it landed on its roof near the garage's loading dock and entrance located on The Hills Plaza.
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The driver was able to get out of the vehicle on his own, officials said. They were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
No additional information about the driver was released.
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