CALIFORNIA, Md. – On July 03, 2023 at 3:42 p.m. deputies from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded to the report of a single vehicle accident in the area of St. Andrew’s Church Rd and Fairgrounds Rd.
Deputies arrived to find a single vehicle had left the roadway. The driver and passenger were extricated from the vehicle. The driver and passenger were flown to Capital Region Hospital with life threatening injuries. The passenger was pronounced deceased a short time later at the hospital. The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Collision Reconstruction Unit responded to conduct the investigation. Next of kin has been notified.
Preliminary Investigation revealed a 2020 Subaru Outback operated by Susan Blizzard, age 74 of Mechanicsville, MD, was traveling northbound on St. Andrew’s Church Road when for unknown reasons, lost control of the vehicle and left the roadway. The vehicle struck a tree trapping both the passenger and driver. The front seat passenger was identified as Francis Rowan age 96.
Anyone who may have witnessed the collision or any events leading up to the collision and have not provided a statement are asked to contact Cpl. Dale Reppel at dale.reppel@stmaryscountymd.gov or by phone (240) 496-6694.
We need to start treating distracted driving the same way we do drunk driving. Looks like the road turned and the operator continued straight…unless a medical emergency occurred charges should be pending.
Exactly. Not only distracted driving, but also driving while tired. There’s already countless studies saying that driving while you’re tired (drowsy driving) is identical to drunk driving in terms of danger. If you’re tired and you want to drive somewhere, don’t! Drink some caffeinated soda or coffee beforehand!
Considering she’s 74. I don’t think so. Maybe keys taken away, but we do know the full story.
How do you know a medical emergency didn’t occur? Instead of jumping to conclusions, you should keep your insensitive comments to yourself while the family grieves and prays their other family member makes it out okay.
How do you know a medical emergency didn’t occur? Instead of jumping to conclusions, you should keep your insensitive comments to yourself while the family grieves and prays their other family member makes it out okay.
Changing your screen name doesn’t entitle you to post the same dumb comment twice
Like you know everything. God people are annoying.
Like you?
How do you know a medical emergency didn’t occur? Instead of jumping to conclusions, you should keep your insensitive comments to yourself. The family is grieving their loss and praying for the driver to survive.
How many times are you going to copy and paste this comment? Get a life
How about we use that common sense and not jump to conclusions while families are struggling and grieving? None of us have any idea what happened, and this could be us and our own families at any time.
We don’t know what happened but there sure is a lot of accidents on St Andrews Church road
@Anonymous
You are correct…”a lot of accidents on St Andrews Church Rd”
Why so many accidents on a road that has a paved width of FOUR LANES…yet people still drive off it and into trees? This latest ‘accident’ was on a straight section of roadway. Keep it BETWEEN the ditches people!