Pickup Truck Driver Killed In Fallston Crash: Police

FALLSTON, MD — One person died and another was airlifted to shock trauma after a crash on MD 152 Tuesday afternoon, officials said. A stretch of the road was shut down south of US 1 for police investigation for nearly three hours.

At 3:04 p.m., police were dispatched to a crash on MD 152 near Stratford Road involving a pickup truck and an SUV, according to Sgt. Dudek of Maryland State Police of the Bel Air Barrack.

The driver of the pickup truck was pronounced deceased at the scene, and his identity was not being released due to the ongoing investigation, Dudek told Patch after 10:15 p.m.

He had been traveling north on MD 152 when the truck left the road, went into a ditch alongside MD 152 and hit a stationary SUV whose driver was about to leave a driveway in the area, Dudek said. After T-boning the SUV, the truck continued moving, police reported.

"The truck overturned into a ditch, the operator of the truck was ejected and the truck rolled on top of him, killing him," Dudek said.

The driver of the SUV was hospitalized as a precautionary measure, he said.

A medevac took the victim to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, according to the Joppa-Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company.

The landing zone for the helicopter was at the Reckord Road Park, according to the fire company, which used the jaws of life in the rescue operation on MD 152 and had called for additional crews to assist.

Officials advised that students from Youths Benefit Elementary School may be delayed in getting home from school due to traffic.

All lanes of MD 152 were closed between Old Mountain Road and US 1 until approximately 6 p.m.

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