Pedestrian killed in St. Barnabas Road crash in Prince George’s County
A man died after a Tuesday night crash in the 4700 block of St. Barnabas Road, the same corridor that saw another pedestrian fatality in 2025. Police said the driver stayed and is cooperating.
Prince George’s County police are investigating a fatal pedestrian collision in the 4700 block of St. Barnabas Road after an adult man was struck Tuesday evening and died a short time later at a trauma center. The driver remained at the scene and is cooperating with investigators as detectives work to determine what caused the crash.
Officers were called to the Marlow Heights and Temple Hills corridor around 8:30 p.m. on July 7. The crash added another death to a stretch of St. Barnabas Road that has already drawn scrutiny for pedestrian danger, especially near the busy commercial strip that runs through southern Prince George’s County.
The road’s safety record is hard to ignore. On March 5, 2025, a fatal pedestrian crash in the same 4700 block killed 56-year-old Kilinia Rhone of Temple Hills. In that case, police said the driver stayed on scene and was not hurt. With two deadly pedestrian crashes in the same corridor, residents have reason to look closely at whether the street itself is part of the problem.
That question sits squarely inside Prince George’s County’s Vision Zero effort, which is designed to eliminate traffic deaths and severe injuries while improving safety for people who walk, bike, drive and use transit. County transportation planning materials also set a goal of cutting serious injuries and fatalities in half by 2030. Maryland’s Vision Zero implementation law has required infrastructure reviews for pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities since October 1, 2022, a process meant to push agencies to examine road design, lighting, speed and crossing conditions after deadly crashes. For St. Barnabas Road, those reviews will help show whether this was an isolated tragedy or another warning sign on a corridor already known for danger.
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