James Cassady Obituary, Death – An Aberdeen man died in a single-vehicle crash that occurred over the weekend. Maryland State Police responded to a report of an accident at the intersection of Maryland Route 7 and Brass Mill Road around 5:30 a.m. on Saturday. They arrived at the scene to find a red Hyundai that had collided with a tree.
The driver was identified as 42-year-old James Cassady from Aberdeen. According to the Abingdon Fire Company, Cassady was alone in the vehicle and was “heavily trapped.”
Cassady was transported to R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in serious condition, where he was later pronounced dead. Preliminary investigations suggest that Cassady was driving westbound on MD Route 7 when, for reasons yet to be determined, his car veered off the road and struck the tree.