4-year-old Maryland girl dead after high speed race involving father

SILVER SPRING, Md. (WDVM) — Two drivers have been indicted on quite a few costs after an impromptu high-speed highway race and crash resulted in a younger woman dropping her life in Maryland final October.

On the night of Oct. 21, 2021, Montgomery County Fireplace Rescue responded to the intersection of Georgia Avenue and Dexter Avenue. for a three-car crash.

An Acura and Honda had been touring southbound on Georgia Avenue, approaching Dexter Avenue. That is the place the motive force of a Ford tried to make a left flip when the Ford was hit by each the Acura and Honda. The Acura then left the roadway and struck a wall.

Court docket paperwork state that the motive force of the Acura, 24-year-old Felipe Hernandez of Silver Spring, and the motive force of the Honda, 25-year-old Gilberto Duvan Guerra Posadas of Germantown, started an impromptu highway race, ultimately crashing into the Ford at excessive speeds.

Hernandez’s four-year-old daughter, Iliana, was within the again seat of the Acura on the time of the crash. She was transported to an space hospital, the place she later died.

Hernandez and Posadas have been indicted by a Montgomery County grand jury on quite a few costs, together with manslaughter by motorized vehicle, two separate counts of second-degree assault, and driving a car in a velocity contest.

Following the indictment, Hernandez turned himself in on the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit, the place he was launched on a $10,000 unsecured private bond.

As for Posadas, he’s presently in custody in Illinois on unrelated costs.

In the meantime, the motive force of the Ford has been issued three citations for driving beneath the affect.