One Dead After Crash Into Light Pole In Rosedale: Police

BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD — Three crashes snarled traffic Tuesday morning near Perry Hall, according to officials. One was fatal, police said.

A man died after his Jeep Cherokee ran into a utility pole near Lillian Holt Drive at Kenwood Avenue around 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 15, the Baltimore County Fire Department reported.

Firefighters had to rescue the man from the vehicle, which had trapped him inside, and they said the victim suffered life-threatening injuries.

Norris Carl Assam, 77, of the 1800 block of Hanford Road in Rosedale, was taken to MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, where police said he was pronounced deceased.

Assam had been driving a Jeep Cherokee west on Kenwood Avenue when for unknown reasons, he went through a red light and continued across the intersection, not stopping until his Jeep hit a light support pole, which brought the vehicle to a halt.

The Baltimore County Police Crash Investigation Team is looking into what caused the deadly crash.

Signal technicians and utility crews are working to repair a traffic signal damaged on Kenwood Avenue at Lillian Holt Drive in Overlea, according to the State Highway Administration, which said the intersection would remain closed through Tuesday evening.

The crash Tuesday morning "severely damaged the traffic signal system that controls the intersection," state transportation officials reported.

Both directions of Kenwood Avenue were detoured via Lillian Holt Drive, Rossville Boulevard and Belair Road, and Lillian Holt Drive was closed to southbound traffic, which was detoured to US 1/Belair Road.

Elsewhere, a tractor-trailer overturned, blocking one lane on the entrance ramp from I-95 south to MD 43, the Maryland Transportation Authority reported. The overturned tractor-trailer leaked fuel, authorities said.

By 10:15 a.m., the ramp had reopened.

There was also a crash on White Marsh Boulevard around 9 a.m. at Campbell Boulevard, according to WJZ.