Driver Dies After Crash on Route 97: Police

COOKSVILLE, MD – A driver died after his truck crossed ran head-on into a dump truck Thursday near the Howard-Carroll county line, according to the Howard County Police Department.

Elijah Jones, 65, of Rockville, was driving a 1999 Ford Ranger north on MD 97 at approximately 10:30 a.m. Thursday when his pickup truck crossed the double-yellow line into that path of a southbound 1998 Mack dump truck near MD 99/Old Frederick Road, police said.

Jones was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where officials reported he was pronounced deceased at 6:58 p.m. Thursday.

Police said the driver of the dump truck, 42-year-old Brandy Allen of Clinton, was uninjured.

Preliminarily, investigators said they determined Jones was not wearing a seatbelt.