Hancock, MD: Two man died and woman was seriously injured car crash on Tuesday August 4th 2015
Two men died and a woman was seriously injured early Tuesday when a car traveling the wrong way on Interstate 70 collided with a tractor-trailer, according to Maryland State Police.
James L. Benge Jr., 22, of Fruitland, Md., and Mohamud S. Ali, 35, of Eagen, Minn., were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, police said in a news release.
Ali was driving a 2011 Freightliner tractor and pulling a 2016 Vanguard trailer loaded with grapes.
Benge was a passenger in a 2007 Kia Rio that was driven by his mother, Kim Benge, 57, also of Fruitland.
She was taken to Meritus Medical Center near Hagerstown then transferred to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.
The Rio was westbound in the eastbound lanes of the interstate and collided with the tractor-trailer, which was eastbound, according to a preliminary police investigation. The tractor-trailer then struck a bridge abutment, police said.
The crash remains under investigation. Findings will be forwarded to the Washington County State's Attorney's Office for review, police said.
Troopers from the Hagerstown barrack were called to the scene on eastbound I-70 at Exit 3 in Hancock at about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday.
I-70 eastbound in the area was closed until shortly after 1:30 p.m.
The debris field caused by the crash initially covered all lanes of eastbound I-70, police said.
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Police identify two dead in I-70 crash in Hancock; eastbound lanes reopened