UPDATE: Magruder Senior, Two Grads Killed in Crash

UPDATE 10 p.m. May 15 Montogmery County police have brought five charges against the driver in the early morning crash that left three people dead on Route 108 in Olney.

When police responded to the scene of the 3 a.m. crash, one passenger was pronounced dead. Two others died later at different hospitals. The surviving passenger—Charles Anthony Nardella, 19, of the 7700 block of Shady Brook Lane near Montgomery Village—stayed on the scene, police said.

Police found the driver, Kevin Coffay, 20, outside his home in the 16700 block of Cutlass Drive in Rockville after a three-hour manhunt. He was taken to a hospital and treated for minor injuries, then was charged with:

• Failure to immediately return and remain at the scene of an accident involving bodily injury
• Failure to immediately stop vehicle at scene of accident involving death
• Failure of driver involved in accident to render reasonable assistance to injured person 
• Failure of vehicle driver in accident to report (bodily injury, death, attended vehicle damage, property damage) to nearest police
• Attempt by driver to elude uniformed police by fleeing on foot

As of this update, Coffay is being held in lieu of $500,000 bond. Police said they may bring additional charges against him once they finish their investigation.

ORIGINAL STORY 2 p.m. May 15 A senior at Col. Zadok Magruder High School and two recent Magruder graduates were killed early Sunday morning when their car slammed into a tree in Olney.

The driver and another passenger suffered non-life threatening injuries.

The single-vehicle crash occurred shortly after 3 a.m. in the 4700 block of Olney-Laytonsville Road, near the Olney Boys and Girls Club Park. Montgomery County police are investigating why the east-bound 2007 Toyota Corolla veered off the roadway.

Haeley N. McGuire, 18, of the 5600 block of Artesian Drive in Derwood, was taken to a MedStar hospital in Columbia, where she was pronounced dead.

Spencer Datt, 18, of the 5700 block of Sunrise Hill Road in Derwood, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. He was the passenger in the car’s right front seat.

John Hoover, 20, of the 5800 block of Rolling Drive in Derwood, was taken to Montgomery General Hospital where he was pronounced dead. He was the passenger in the center rear seat.

Charles Anthony Nardella,19, of the 7700 block of Shady Brook Lane in the Hadley Farms community next to Montgomery Village, was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. He was the passenger in the car’s left rear seat. 

The driver, Kevin Coffay, 20, of the 16700 block of Cutlass Drive in Rockville fled the scene, police said, and was found three hours later. He was taken to a hospital for minor injuries, police said.

It was not clear why Coffay left the scene or whether drugs or alcohol played a role in the crash, a police spokeswoman said on Sunday afternoon. Police had no information about any criminal charges. The incident remains under investigation.

McGuire was a senior at Magruder High, said Dana Tofig, a county schools spokesman. The other occupants of the car graduated from Magruder in 2009 and 2010, Tofig said.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call county police’s Collision Reconstruction Unit at 301-840-2435.