CECILTON, MD : A Delaware man was killed on April, Wednesday 19th 2017

A Delaware man was killed on Wednesday night in a collision on a highway near the Maryland-Delaware border, marking the third fatal traffic accident in Cecil County in five days, according to Maryland State Police.

Investigators identified the victim as 36-year-old Nilton Perez, who was pronounced dead at the crash scene on U.S. Route 301, south of Cecilton and a mile south of the Delaware state line, police reported.

Perez was a front-seat passenger in a box truck driven in the southbound lane by his brother, Gerson Perez, 34, also of Delaware, police said. The box truck was traveling behind a southbound tractor-trailer driven by Neris Alvarado, 36, police added.

When the vehicle traveling in front of the tractor-trailer suddenly slowed, Alvarado applied the tractor-trailer’s brakes to avoid crashing into the rear of that vehicle, according to police. As that tractor-trailer suddenly slowed, however, Perez either failed to apply his brakes or failed to do so quickly enough, and his box truck crashed into the back of the tractor-trailer, police reported.

An ambulance took Gerson Perez to Christiana Hospital in Delaware, where he was treated for undisclosed injuries, police said. Alvarado did not require medical treatment, police added.

An MSP accident reconstruction team conducted an on-scene investigation.

Perez is the third fatal crash victim in Cecil County since last Friday, when a New York woman was killed and two other people, including a child, were seriously injured in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 95 near Elkton. The woman was one of the occupants of a car that veered off the right side of southbound I-95 and struck a tree, before rolling over, police reported.

Then on Sunday, two days later, a Pennsylvania man was killed and another was injured when the motorcycles they were riding together in the northbound lane of Hilltop Road, north of Elkton, collided for unknown reasons, according to police.

Based on Cecil Whig records, seven people have been killed in traffic accidents on Cecil County highways thus far this year.

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Delaware man killed in crash near Cecilton