UPDATE 12/4/2024 @ 15:10: Audio added – We provided details given about the incident as stated over the air by St. Mary’s County Dispatchers, and First Responders in real time due to the serious nature of the call, and alert for the possible road closures/delays in the area.
The incident was dispatched as a vehicle into the structure involving a broken and leaking 3-inch propane line with one subject trapped. The incident alerted firefighters from Mechanicsville, Hollywood, Ridge, Leonardtown, NAS Patuxent River and the St. Mary’s County Emergency Services & HAZMAT Teams.
All responding Fire and Rescue Units along with Police Officers were advised multiple 911 callers stated “the operator is possible impaired and was trapped inside the vehicle.”
The first arriving Fire Department Officer advised NO entrapment with the operator being GOA (Gone on arrival). Upon securing the leak, extinguishing a fire under the vehicle, crews searched and evaluated the scene where the operator was located a short time later, the adult male was evaluated and transported.
Although initially reported to First Responders as a 1056 driver (Impaired), the crash remains under investigation by the Maryland State Police Leonardtown Barrack as a suspected medical emergency being the cause of the collision. No further information has been provided by officials.
On Tuesday, December 3, 2024, at approximately 3:21 p.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services responded to the Wentworth Nursery located at 41170 Oakville Road in Mechanicsville, for the serious motor vehicle collision involving a structure, entrapment, and hazardous materials.
Multiple 911 callers reported a white pickup truck ran the red light at Three Notch Road and Albert Wood Road, before travelling off the roadway onto the Wentworth Nursery Property and struck a greenhouse and the structures propane heating gas line. Multiple 911 callers also advised the operator was possibly impaired and was trapped in the vehicle.
Crews arrived on the scene to confirm a single vehicle into the structure with a gas line actively leaking, with no entrapment and reported the operator as GOA (gone on arrival).
Firefighters secured the gas utilities, extinguished a small fire underneath of the vehicle and began searching for the male operator, who was located a short time later.
Emergency medical personnel evaluated the patient and transported them to an area hospital with minor/non-life threatening injuries.
State Troopers from the Maryland State Police Leonardtown Barrack responded and are investigating the collision.
