Second person dies in Hollywood collision from earlier this month

A young girl who was in the back seat of a SUV involved in an accident earlier this month died on Friday.

The sheriff’s office had reported that a Waldorf man driving a motorcycle died April 7 after a collision with the SUV in Hollywood at 10:19 a.m. that morning. St. Mary’s sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to Three Notch Road and Tom Hodges Drive where they determined that a 2006 Yamaha motorcycle had collided with a 2008 Hyundai Sonata.

The initial investigation determined that the motorcycle, driven by Tiernan Anthony Stephenson, 21, was traveling north on Three Notch Road when the Hyundai, driven by Stephanie Rose Robey, 36, of Hollywood, pulled into the path of the motorcycle while attempting to cross the road from Tom Hodges Drive, according to a release from the sheriff’s office.

Stephenson struck the driver’s side back door and was ejected from the motorcycle, according the sheriff’s office. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver of the SUV was transported to MedStar Washington Hospital Center, and a juvenile passenger in the SUV was transported via Maryland State Police Aviation Trooper 7 to Children’s Hospital in critical condition, the sheriff’s office had reported earlier this month. The girl was taken off of life support and died on April 18.

A spokesperson for the St. Mary’s sheriff’s office said over the weekend that the crash is still under investigation.

Isaiah Mercado, an aviation ordnanceman at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, was among the first on the scene of the April 7 crash.

Driving with his wife, Mercado saw the scene of the collision in Hollywood, according to a release from the Navy base.

“It was just a natural instinct to stop,” Mercado said in the release. “As soon as I saw the accident my first thought was to get there as fast as I could and help out the victims.”

Telling his wife to call 911, he assessed the scene and began to check on the three people involved in the collision, according to the release. Mercado was then joined on the scene by an off-duty St. Mary’s sheriff’s deputy, who began to assist with the injured as well.

“Mercado’s initial assessment of the scene made it clear that the SUV’s door buckled in the collision with enough force to roll the SUV’s frame onto the child’s booster seat, making it difficult to remove her from that side of the vehicle,” according to the Navy’s release.

Anyone who may have witnessed the collision or any events leading up to it and who has not already provided a statement is asked to contact sheriff’s Cpl. Rachael Roszell at 301-475-4200, ext. 8108, or by email at Rachael.Roszell@stmaryscountymd.gov.