Dundalk Man Killed In Car Accident: Police

GLEN BURNIE, MD — A Dundalk 19-year-old died in a single-vehicle crash early Tuesday morning. Shortly before 4:15 a.m., troopers from the Maryland State Police responded to an accident that had occurred on northbound MD 295 at West Nursery Road in Linthicum Heights.

According to a preliminary investigation, a 2018 Toyota Camry was traveling in the left lane when, for unknown reasons, the driver failed to maintain control of the vehicle, drove off to the right onto a grassy portion of the roadway and hit a tree. Both the driver and passenger were wearing seatbelts at the time of crash, the Maryland State Police reported.

The driver of the Toyota, a 19-year-old man, was taken by ambulance to Shock Trauma in Baltimore. The passenger, Sean Ruffin, 19, of Dundalk, was pronounced dead at the scene by Anne Arundel County EMS personnel. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.