Tow Truck Driver Killed In 4-Vehicle Crash Along I-95: Maryland State Police

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD — A tow truck driver assisting with a broken down vehicle along I-95 has died after he was hit by a passing vehicle.

Around 12:10 p.m. Thursday, troopers from the Maryland State Police College Park Barrack responded to a multi-vehicle crash on I-95 North at Powder Mill Road. According to a preliminary investigation, the tow truck driver had stopped to help a driver whose 2009 Toyota Yaris had become disabled on the left shoulder of the road, according to the MSP.

While helping the driver of the 2009 Toyota Yaris, who was a 76-year-old woman, another driver - Hans Jurgen Gutierrez Samoya, 24, of Laurel in a 2016 Toyota Scion iA - sideswiped the broken down vehicle. Samoya then hit a third vehicle, a 2014 Honda Accord, which was then hit by a tractor trailer, the MSP reported.

The tow truck driver, Osama Abdelfattah Marey, 31, of Suitland, was declared dead at the scene by emergency medical services personnel. The vehicle that hit him remained at the scene. The driver of the Honda was taken by ambulance to Suburban Hospital for treatment.

The Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration assisted at the scene with the road closure, which lasted about five hours. The Maryland State Police Crash Team is leading this investigation.