Two killed in two-car crash in Damascus Monday night

Two people died after two cars collided on Woodfield Road near Churchill Downs Road in Damascus on Monday night.

Police officers on Tuesday morning were unable to say what happened to cause the collision.

Police officers called to the scene found Lindsey Shannon, 46, of the 500 block of Taylor Street in Northwest Washington, D.C., dead in the rear passenger-side seat of the Chrysler Sebring.

His girlfriend, Lisa Marie Barnes, 40, of the 25700 block of Valley Park Terrace in Damascus, was driving the car and was seriously injured, police said. She was flown to the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where she died from her injuries, police said.

Barnes’ children were passengers in the car, police said. According to police, her daughter, Samyah Barnes, 7, was flown to Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., with non-life-threatening injuries while her son, Terrell Abney Jr., 17, was flown to the Washington Hospital Center MedStar Unit with non-life-threatening injuries.

Everyone in the car was wearing seatbelts, police said.

Lassina Barro, 43, of the 500 block of Sunny Brook Terrace in Gaithersburg, the driver of the Lincoln Town Car, was flown to Suburban Hospital in Bethesda for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, police reported. He was not wearing a seat belt, according to county police.

Fifth District Police officers and the county’s Fire and Rescue Service were on the scene shortly after the collision, said Jeanette Wright, a county police spokeswoman. The road was closed for several hours.

The speed limit on the section of Woodfield Road near the collision is 30 miles per hour and the road has no shoulder and many twists and turns, police reported.

The police Collision Reconstruction Unit is investigating the incident.

Anyone who witnessed the collision is asked to call the Collision Reconstruction Unit at 301-840-2488.