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Woman killed in Wheaton car crash

September 26, 2016 at 2:43 p.m. EDT

A 30-year-old woman was killed in a car crash Sunday evening in Montgomery County, police said.

At around 6:20 p.m., authorities responded to the area of Randolph Road and Denley Road in Wheaton for the report of a collision, Montgomery County police said in a statement.

A preliminary investigation revealed that a 2011 Hyundai Sonata driven by Michelle Renee Sears of District Heights was traveling southbound on Denley Road at Randolph Road while a 2002 Ford Explorer driven by 25-year-old Pedro Garcia Huerta of Silver Spring was traveling westbound on Randolph Road, the statement said.

The two cars collided for reasons that are still unclear, police said, and Sears was transported to a local hospital where she later died of her injuries. Huerta was not injured, according to police.

Police asked anyone with information about the collision to call them at 240-773-6620.