A wrong-way driver struck a family's car head-on Saturday, Aug. 29, on southbound I-270 near Democracy Boulevard in Bethesda, killing a Virginia mother and her adult daughter.

Maryland State Police identified the victims as Musammat Shamima Begum, 46, of Burke, and Areebah Jahin, 23, of Alexandria. Both died at the scene.

Jahin's father, Mohammed Faruk Hossain, 62, was driving the family's Toyota Camry and sustained minor injuries, according to charging documents reported by The Banner. An 8-year-old girl in the car, also Hossain's daughter, remained hospitalized in critical but stable condition as of Monday, Aug. 31, prosecutors said at a bond hearing.

Jose Caballero Nolasco, 32, of Germantown, was driving a Ford Mustang north in the southbound lanes around 6:46 p.m. when the vehicles collided, according to a Maryland State Police preliminary investigation. He was the sole occupant of the Mustang.

Troopers found several opened and unopened beer cans in Nolasco's car. Charging documents state they detected slurred speech and the smell of alcohol on his breath. A prosecutor told the court that after the crash, Nolasco had to hold onto a traffic barrier to keep from falling over.

Nolasco faces two counts of gross negligent manslaughter, two counts of homicide by motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol and one count of life-threatening injury by motor vehicle.

At a bond hearing Monday, Aug. 31, in Montgomery County District Court, Judge Patrick Mays denied Nolasco's release. He cited what he called "extreme disregard for everyone traveling on the Beltway." Nolasco is being held at the Montgomery County Detention Center.

Neighbors in Burke told The Banner that Jahin had recently graduated from George Mason University and worked as a nurse. Peter Huynh, who said he often gardened with Hossain, told The Banner, "I saw them just two days ago."

The crash closed several southbound I-270 lanes for about five hours. It was one of four fatal collisions that killed seven people across Maryland over the weekend, state police said.

The collision came days after the Montgomery County Police Department confirmed it would dissolve its Alcohol Initiatives Unit (AIU), reassigning its five officers to other units because of staffing shortages. The Washington Times first reported that AIU officers would move to the Centralized Traffic, Crisis Response, School Resources and Support units.

The Washington Post reported that in the past month, the AIU made four DUI arrests, compared with 42 by other county officers. Montgomery County Council member Dawn Luedtke, who serves on the Public Safety Committee, told the Post that patrol officers still enforce impaired-driving laws countywide.

Nolasco's next court date has not been announced. The 8-year-old girl's condition has not been updated since Monday. To report an impaired driver, call 911.