Millersville, MD : Two men injured, one critically in a head-on collision in Millersville on Monday afternoon, January 25, 2016

Two men were injured, one of them critically, in a head-on collision Monday afternoon in Millersville, county police and fire spokesmen said.

The accident occurred around 1:50 p.m. in the area of Veterans Highway and Menteth Drive. A preliminary investigation indicated that a 2010 Ford E-250 work van was traveling northbound on Veterans Highway when it crossed into southbound traffic and struck a 2005 Ford F-150 pickup truck head-on, police said.

The driver of the pickup truck, identified as James A. Harding Sr., 64, of Arnold, was trapped inside the vehicle. It took firefighters around 30 minutes to rescue Harding from the pickup, Capt. Russ Davies, a fire department spokesman said.

He was taken by ambulance to Archbishop Spalding High School in Severn where a Maryland State Police helicopter was waiting to fly him to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Davies said.

The high school was the closest place that the helicopter could land in light of a snowstorm that dropped more than two feet of snow across the region over the weekend, Davies said.

Harding was said to be suffering from critical, possibly life-threatening injuries Monday afternoon. His condition remained unclear Tuesday morning.

The driver of the work van, identified by police as William J. Darcy Jr., 54, of Millersville, was taken to Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie with minor injuries.

As of Tuesday morning, an investigation remained ongoing. Any charges are pending review by the county State's Attorney's Office, police said.

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Two injured in Millersville crash