Frederick, MD : A Frederick man killed in a two vehicle crash at Creagerstown Road/Md. 550 and Old Frederick Road On Monday, May 16th, 2016

A Frederick man whose car crashed in Creagerstown on Monday has died, police said.

Maryland State Police said Scott A. Ruetten, 59, was the only occupant of a 2009 Nissan that crashed at Creagerstown Road/Md. 550 and Old Frederick Road, according to Maryland State Police.

The crash happened at about 11:50 a.m., said Sgt. Paul Schur, a state police supervisor.

A state police helicopter took Ruetten to R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where he died, police said.

Schur said Ruetten was thrown from the car after it left the road for an unknown reason and struck a tree. The car then came back onto the road and overturned, a police press release said.Police determined that Ruetten was not wearing a seat

belt when the crash occurred, according to the release.

The intersection was closed shortly after the crash, with troopers redirecting traffic, Schur said.

Ruetten was an amazing artist and a musician, said his daughter Kini Allen, who works in the digital media department The Frederick News-Post. He played in the band Sourpuss, based in Frederick, with two of his brothers and two other people

who have played together in bands for more than 30 years, Allen said.

Allen said his paintings often had dark and religious undertones, sometimes contrasting images of skulls and crosses.

She said his artistic abilities taught her to look at all things and see the beauty in them and the meaning of art.“Everybody always has their own interpretation of it,” she said. “And it doesn’t have to be a traditional, beautiful landscape to be beautiful

and meaningful.”

She said he was the second youngest of five boys and was kind of rebellious growing up in the 1960s and ’70s.

He passed on his good taste in music to her, she said. She listened to the Rolling Stones and James Brown growing up and remembers not knowing what pop music the other kids at school were listening to.

Allen said one thing she loved about her father when she was younger was how he would wrap her schoolbooks with brown paper bags.“It was so precise, the way he would do it,” she said. “I remember sitting there and being in awe of how he’d

tape my books up.”

She said he also had meticulous handwriting and she wanted to grow up to be able to write like him.

“[It’s] the littlest thing that you’d never think about,” she said.

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Frederick man dies after crash in Creagerstown