DC Police investigate Early Morning Traffic Fatality

WASHINGTON, DC — Metropolitan Police Department detectives from the Major Crash Investigations Unit are investigating a traffic fatality that took place early Monday morning near Lincoln Park, according to a police release.

Following a preliminary investigation, MPD reported that a vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed around 12:36 a.m. and crashed into another vehicle between the intersection of 11th Street and Independence Avenue, S.E. Following the crash, the two occupants from the first vehicle fled the scene on foot. A passenger, whom police have not identified, was pronounced dead on the scene and was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. The case remains under investigation.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call police at 202-727-9099 or text a tip to the Department's TEXT TIP LINE at 50411.