Crime & Safety
Vehicle Falls From Bridge Onto Road Near Cheverly; 2 Hurt
It happened Sunday afternoon near Kenilworth Avenue and Baltimore-Washington Parkway. Two patients were taken to a hospital trauma center.
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CHEVERLY, MD — Two people were rushed to a hospital when a vehicle fell off a bridge onto another road near Cheverly. It happened Sunday afternoon near Kenilworth Avenue and Baltimore-Washington Parkway. Authorities said a car traveling southbound on the parkway went through and over the wall of the bridge over the northbound side, landing upside down.
Two patients were taken to a hospital trauma center. All northbound and southbound lanes on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway were closed at U.S. Route 50 following the wreck. The southbound lanes were reopened but the northbound lanes remained closed for clean up.
U.S. Park police were investigating.
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Photos of the wreck showed a red vehicle upside down in the middle of the parkway as bits and pieces of metal and debris lay nearby.
Further details weren't immediately available.
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