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Date: 
Monday, September 1, 2014
Witness Jonathan Escobar witnessed the accident from his car. “The woman screamed and grabbed the child, to protect her,” he said. Escobar says the mother and daughter were crossing in the crosswalk when a speeding SUV hit them. “The lady was...in the crosswalk, with her daughter and her groceries, and she almost made it, but, like I said, that guy was awfully, going really fast.”
Date: 
Saturday, May 17, 2014

Officers say 42-year-old Rosendo Mendez of Hyattsville died Tuesday.

Police say about 1 a.m. May 18, Mendez tried to cross University Boulevard near 15th Avenue. Authorities say a car traveling west hit Mendez when he stepped off the media strip. Officers say he was not in a crosswalk.

Police say the car that hit Mendez, a medium-sized sedan, did not stop. Anyone with information about the car or the accident should call police.

Date: 
Sunday, January 12, 2014

A pedestrian has died after being struck by a SUV that later crashed into a Prince George's County building Monday morning.

Officers were called to the 4800 block of Rhode Island Avenue in Hyattsville around 7:40 a.m. for a report of an accident. Police said the driver hit the male pedestrian before crashing into the building.