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Passenger dies of crash injuries
St. Mary's man is second to perish
Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009
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A Hollywood man died Saturday from injuries suffered in a single-car accident near La Plata, the second person to die in the Sept. 8 crash.
Adrian Paul Proffer, 26, of Hollywood was the front-seat passenger of the car that slammed into a guardrail and tree on Route 6 west of Cooksey Road at about 8 a.m., according to police.
The car's driver, Jeffrey Daniel Milan, 25, of Hollywood, died the day of the accident, and backseat passenger Kristina Ann Himes, 24, of Hollywood was driven to Prince George's Hospital Center with life-threatening injuries.
A helicopter flew Proffer to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where he died.
His aunt, Dottie Proffer, said his head had been severely injured in the accident. Proffer said on Monday that Himes was still hospitalized, but her family wasn't able to be reached for confirmation.
Maryland State Police found that speed contributed to the crash, which happened when Milan lost control of his silver 1999 Ford Mustang on a wet road. After striking the guardrail, the car crossed both lanes of traffic and went off the road into the woods, a report stated.
Proffer was scheduled to babysit his niece the morning of Sept. 8 and was late returning home from a night out, according to his aunt. Dottie Proffer believes his friends were hurrying him home when the accident happened.
"It's a tragedy," she said. "It's really sad that three families are devastated by this."
Born in Arizona, Adrian, or "Paul," Proffer and his brother moved to Maryland when they were teens and stayed with their aunt and uncle.
"They're just like my own kids," said Dottie Proffer.
She said that Adrian Proffer, the father of a 4-year-old boy, was a great fan of the Dallas Cowboys football team and enjoyed video games and hanging out with his friends. He was always "tinkering" and especially loved working on his Lincoln, which he had owned for about a year. But he wasn't too picky about the type of machinery he would dismantle, his aunt said.
"He would take bicycles apart. I've got bicycles here in my backyard with their wheels off," Dottie Proffer said.
She said his family was planning to hold services for Proffer in Maryland and Arizona.
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