4 killed, others hurt in fiery Maryland crash

Fourteen people suffered injuries of varying severity. Parker said she had a “late-term pregnancy”, although she did not specify how far along the baby was in its development.

Shortly before hitting the van, the pickup driver hit another vehicle and didn’t stop, police said. He said it was one of the worst scenes he had seen in a 40-year career.

Among the hospitals treating the injured were Children’s National Medical Center and MedStar Washington Hospital, both in the District of Columbia. The conditions of 13 people from the van range from minor to critical.

Donald Huff, who lives on the street where the accident took place, said he heard “a loud boom, just like a bomb”, and then saw the van burst into flames.

The truck then rammed into the 15-passenger van and exploded, according to the affiliate. A few bystander photos posted on social media showed flames rising above the crash site not far from the van, which Brady said could hold 15 passengers and had front-end damage from the crash.

“The hearth really concerned the pickup truck” and never the van, he mentioned by telephone.

“The fire just got bigger and bigger”, he told The Associated Press by phone.

An additional eight adults and six children were hospitalized, authorities said.

Jose Santos Jimenez, the pastor of Iglesia Ministerio de Dios Unido, was leading a service at his church when he got a phone call about the crash, and he rushed to the hospital. He spent most of Sunday night and all of Monday visiting and praying with the injured members of his small congregation, which has members from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Panama.

“We’re looking at this and what happened”, Baker said.

Baker says he expects to receive a briefing on the incident later in the day.

The fiery result of a pickup truck crashing into a passenger van in Hyattsville, Maryland, resulting in four deaths.

Sherrie Johnson says counselors will be on hand at the schools on Monday.

Four people died in the crash.

One child was killed, and several other children were being treated at hospitals.

Charred debris is strewn Monday morning on the sidewalk, along the curb and in the small front yard of the house, less than 20 feet from the front door. As soon as the pickup truck had crossed over the road, the van struck it on the precise aspect and the truck caught fireplace, he advised The Related Press. A child is among the dead and authorities say the conditions of the survivors range from critical to fair. Their conditions were not available.

The crash occurred Sunday evening in Hyattsville.

Marc Bashoor, chief of the Prince George’s County Fire Department, said via Twitter that three adults and one child were confirmed as fatalities.