Skip to main content

Driver crashes through brick wall into Montgomery Co. hair salon

A driver crashed a car through a brick wall and into salon in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on Monday morning, according to Montgomery County Fire and EMS. The car crashed through the wall of Kacey Hair Salon, next to Dunkin’, at 20 Montgomery Village Ave. in Gaithersburg, according to a tweet from the department’s spokesman Pete Piringer.



Emergency responders say they got the driver out of the car around 8:40 a.m. The department said the driver was taken to the hospital, but there’s no word on the person’s condition. The building was evacuated and no one else was hurt, Piringer said.

The damage to the building was not on a load bearing wall, according to the department. Building and health inspectors will evaluate the building.

Audit finds ‘off the books’ account used by vendors to pay Montgomery Co. schools staff

Nearly a year after Montgomery County, Maryland, police reported they were investigating “possible financial improprieties” in the county school system’s transportation department, a new state audit offers details on what generated its investigation. According to the September 2022 report by the Maryland Office of Legislative Audits, the Montgomery County school system’s own internal audit showed “questionable purchases” for gift cards, furniture and other items shipped to an unnamed transportation manager’s home.
Read Next Story