Cars Crash Into MoCo Buildings Hours Apart

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD — The county recorded two crashes on Thursday that involved cars being driven into buildings.

The first of the two incidents occurred around 5 p.m. at the K9 Aquatic Daycare Center on Travilah Road near Glen Road in the Potomac Oak Center.

Images shared by the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service showed a sedan that had driven through the daycare center and into the facility's swimming pool area.

It is not known whether any dogs were housed at the facility when the incident occurred.

MCFRS spokesperson Pete Piringer said the driver was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.

Hours later, around 11:30 p.m., MCFRS personnel responded to reports of a car driving into a building on the 13600 block of Palmetto Circle in Germantown.

Unlike the earlier report tied to a business, the second incident involved a townhouse.

Technical crews were on the scene to assist two individuals in the car who needed to be extricated, as another two others on the second level of the home needed assistance leaving the grounds.

Those trapped in the car were hospitalized for non-life-threatening injuries. The two individuals in the home did not suffer any injuries.

Piringer said the home sustained significant structural damage, ultimately displacing the family.

Photos from the scene showed the car dangling off the side of the home, having made it more than halfway into the first floor of the structure.

Both collisions remain under investigation.