Another hit and run

Second Victim Dies in Burtonsville Hit and Run
Burtonsvile, Md. - UPDATED - Tuesday August 14, 2007 5:46 pm
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Montgomery County police say the driver of a van who plowed into a group of road workers Monday, killing two of them, and then fled the scene has surrendered to police.Prince George's County police say 31-year-old Manuel De Jesus Gonzalez-Geronimo of Hyattsville contacted them about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday. Prince George's County Police turned Gonzalez-Geronimo over to Montgomery County Police. Gonzalez-Geronimo reportedly told court officials he is an illegal immigrant and does not have a driver's license.Gonzalez-Geronimo has been charged with failure to immediately return and remain at the scene of a collision involving death, failure to immediately stop a vehicle at the scene of a collision involving bodily injury, and driving without a license. He is currently being held on $150,000 bond at the Montgomery County Detention Center. Investigators believe Gonzalez-Geronimo was driving the van that plowed into five workers Monday afternoon on Route 29 in Burtonsville, near the Howard County line.
The workers were taking a break when the white van careened into another vehicle and then struck them.Thirty-year-old Martin Ruffin of Baltimore died on the scene. Thirty-seven-year-old James Cronin of Glen Burnie was flown to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore where he died Tuesday afternoon.Twenty-eight-year-old Hugo Perez, 35-year-old Jose Padillo, and 30-year-old Rafael Ramos, were transported to nearby hospitals with non-life threatening injuries.