Police: 6 construction workers killed in work-zone crash on highway in Maryland

WOODLAWN, Md. (AP) — Six individuals had been killed when a passenger car crashed into a piece zone alongside the Baltimore beltway and struck development staff, Maryland State Police stated Wednesday.

Troopers responded to the work zone on northbound Interstate 695 at Safety Boulevard within the Woodlawn space round 12:40 p.m. for a report of a pedestrian crash, police stated in a information launch.

Emergency medical service personnel pronounced six individuals, all of them staff, lifeless on the scene, and the driving force of the automobile was taken to the College of Maryland Medical Middle’s Shock Trauma Middle, police stated.

The preliminary investigation discovered that the car went between the jersey partitions of the work zone for unknown causes and hit a number of staff earlier than overturning, police stated. The motive force’s id is presently unknown.

Late Wednesday, police stated investigators imagine a second car that stayed on the scene might have additionally been concerned within the crash.

The collision closed the beltway in each instructions for hours, snarling site visitors alongside the west aspect of the freeway that encircles town. Baltimore County Fireplace Division officers referred to as the crash “extraordinarily severe” and requested drivers to keep away from the world.

Baltimore County Govt Johnny Olszewski referred to as the crash horrific.

“We provide our honest condolences to the households, buddies, and family members of those that have misplaced their lives in as we speak’s tragic crash,” he wrote in a tweet.

The reason for the crash stays underneath investigation.

Police didn’t launch the names of those that had been killed pending the notification of subsequent of kin.

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