Crime & Safety
Victim In Fatal Pedestrian Collision Identified As Rockville Woman
Montgomery County Police identified a 35-year-old Rockville woman as the victim in the Oct. 28 fatal collision on Rockville Pike.
ROCKVILLE, MD — Montgomery County Police identified 35-year-old Sonia Maribel Mejia Cruz of Rockville as the pedestrian killed after being struck by a car last month on Rockville Pike, according to a police release.
Officers from the Rockville City and Montgomery County police departments responded around 8:58 p.m., on Oct. 28, to the 1000 block of Rockville Pike for the report of a collision between a car and a pedestrian.
A preliminary investigation determined that Cruz was crossing Rockville Pike from east to west when she was hit by a northbound 2004 Toyota Camry, according to police. The driver remained on the scene after the collision.
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Cruz was taken to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries, but she succumbed to those injuries on Nov. 11.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call MCDP's Collision Reconstruction Unit at 240-773-6620.
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