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Driver dead in Gaithersburg head-on crash

The scene of a fatal crash on Clopper Road near Orchard Hills Drive in Gaithersburg, Md., on April 18. (Courtesy Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service/Pete Piringer)(Courtesy MCFRS/Pete Piringer)

A man is dead after two vehicles crashed head-on in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on Sunday morning.

Montgomery County fire and rescue personnel were dispatched for a head-on collision between two sedans in the area of Md. Route 117/Clopper Road near Orchard Hills Drive in Gaithersburg just before 6 a.m. Sunday.

A man who was driving one of the two cars, identified as 29-year-old Emil William Cosbert, of Gaithersburg, died on the scene, MCFRS spokesman Pete Piringer said. The other driver, 27-year-old Juliette Marie Simon of Cheltenham, was hospitalized with injuries that Montgomery County police described as “non-life threatening.”

Piringer said two other people involved in the crashed were injured. A firefighter responding to the scene also received an injury which was not life-threatening.

The 91Å·ÃÀ¼¤Çé Traffic Center reported Clopper Road reopened to traffic at 10:20 a.m.. It had been closed both ways between Longdraft Road and W. Watkins Mill Road/Pheasant Run Drive due to the crash investigation.

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91Å·ÃÀ¼¤Çé’s Mary de Pompa, Luke Lukert and Zeke Hartner contributed to this report.

Matt Small

Matt joined 91Å·ÃÀ¼¤Çé 91Å·ÃÀ¼¤Çé at the start of 2020, after contributing to Washington’s top news outlet as an Associated Press journalist for nearly 18 years.

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