A 36-year-old police officer in Montgomery County, Maryland, has died after suffering a medical crisis that caused him to crash the car he was driving, police say.
Officer Douglas Haggerty was going eastbound on Spencerville Road after Good Hope Road about 8 a.m. Friday when he began to experience an incapacitating medical event, the Montgomery County Police Department said.
A photo of the crash scene showed major damage to the car, which appeared to run off the road. It wasn't clear what the car crashed into.
A child that was in the car was able to get out after the crash and call 911, police said.
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Officers and paramedics responded and helped Haggerty at the scene. He was pronounced dead a short time later at a hospital.
Police said they believe the medical emergency led to the crash.
Haggerty was a Montgomery County officer since July 2010 and most recently worked in the department's Rockville district.
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"The men and women of the Department thank the community for their continued thoughts and prayers for the family of Officer Douglas Haggerty and his children," the department said in a statement.
