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Maryland families asking for answers after map error causes confusion
Maryland families asking for answers after map error causes confusion
Over a hundred families in Maryland have missed important appointments, due an error on the map that wrongly redirects them to a school.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. – Over a hundred families in Maryland are missing important appointments, including doctor’s visits due to an error on the map.
Instead of showing up to Montgomery County’s Department of Health and Human Services building, they’re ending up at Grace Episcopal Day School in Kensington.
“There is a glitch with the mapping system, and they are ending up miles from their destination,” said Jennifer Danish, head of school at Grace Episcopal.
About 6 miles to be exact and 15 minutes away with no traffic.
Danish who sometimes has to go outside and help re-direct families who are dropped off via ride-share of the bus.
“They think they are going to HHS of Montgomery County for all kinds of services, dental appointments, doctors’ appointments, tax issues,” Danish adds.
But when they put in ‘1401 Rockville Pike’ the pin brings them to the school.
Melissa Lafionatis, the director of enrollment and strategy, says in many cases English isn’t the first language of the families she’s trying to help.
“I was trying to communicate with this family via Google Translate and I thought that they were asking for an application for their small child, only to discover they were trying to get an appointment for prenatal information,” said Lafionatis.
They’ve reached out to county and state leaders, including Rep. Jamie Raskins; as well as Google to try to get some help.
“They have an option where you can move the pin on the map to move the location to where it’s supposed to be,” but the location is still incorrect.
So until they get some answers, they’ve put out signs in front of doors directing people to the right location in Rockville.
“We’ve translated into Spanish for them, so it can be helpful,” said Lafionatis.
Danish says she feels terrible – she understands it’s not her fault, but something needs to be done.
“These appointments seem really important, so we want to get this solved,” she adds.
FOX 5 DC did reach out to leaders of the county, and they tell us they’ve reached out to Google five times requesting the pin change, and they are waiting to hear back.
The Maryland Department of Transportation reported a crash shortly after 4:10 p.m. June 21 on I-95 north near mile marker 39 in Howard County. Twenty minutes later, the MDOT reported all four northbound lanes were closed while emergency crews were at the scene. A shoulder along northbound I-95 also was shut down.
Vehicles could be seen backed up beyond the MD Route 32 interchange on MDOT traffic cameras. All southbound lanes remained open.
Three people were killed on Saturday after their single-engine aircraft crashed in a wooded area near Bowie, Maryland, according to Maryland State Police.
The three people on board were Israelis, according to Israeli media reports on Sunday, citing the Foreign Ministry.
An NBC report cited the police as saying that the aircraft was found Sunday morning after crashing near a townhouse community and local playground.
Police did not release the identities of the deceased, all of whom were declared dead on the scene.
The crash was initially reported at 11:30 p.m. on Saturday via iPhone alert, NBC cited Prince George’s County Public Safety Communications as saying.
The pilot and passengers of the small aircraft were on a training flight when the crash occured, NBC reported, noting that the aircraft belonged to a Montgomery County flight school.
The Baltimore Sun identified the aircraft as a Piper PA-28, a common training aircraft in the United States.
On Tuesday, a small jet plane carrying six people crashed into a vehicle on a highway in Laredo, Texas, authorities said.
One person was killed in the crash, named by the Associated Press on Wednesday as Austin tech entrepreneur Joshua Baer.
In addition, five first responders were hospitalized for smoke inhalation, and the passengers were hospitalized for minor injuries.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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