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Pedestrian dies 12 days after he’s struck while in crosswalk

A man died Wednesday from the injuries he sustained when he was struck by a car in Montgomery County, Maryland, earlier this month.

Montgomery County police said that Vidal Godinez Guatemalteca, 35, of Silver Spring, was in the crosswalk on Gridley Road around 10 p.m. on June 3 when he was struck by a car that was turning left onto Gridley Road from Selfridge Road.



Gautemalteca was taken to the hospital that night where he remained in intensive care until he died this week.

The collision is still being investigated as a fatality.

Below is the area where Guatemalteca was struck:

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Friendship Heights, Brookdale community file lawsuit against developers seeking to redevelop former GEICO campus

The Village of Friendship Heights filed a lawsuit May 13 asking a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge to decide whether updated plans for the redevelopment of the 26.5-acre GEICO site on Western Avenue should still be subjected to 1998 county development requirements that applied to the early plans for the site. The filing of the lawsuit does not halt the latest project plans, dubbed Friendship Commons, from moving through the county’s development process. But it does request the court to decide whether specific project elements, including taller heights of the proposed multifamily buildings and construction of a new sports field, should be changed to abide by previous requirements. Leadership of the Village of Friendship Heights has previously voiced opposition to the new plans and concerns about the plans’ proposed removal of mature trees and decision not to preserve or adaptively reuse the mid-century style GEICO building.
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