Driver Killed When Car Hits Tree On B-W Parkway: AACo Fire Dept.

ANNAPOLIS JUNCTION, MD — The U.S. Park Police are investigating a fatal accident Sunday night in which a car veered off the Baltimore-Washington Parkway (Route 295) and struck a tree, according to the Anne Arundel County Fire Department. A passerby spotted the vehicle in the woods and alerted authorities, according to the department.

Firefighters responded to the scene at about 11:45 p.m. on Jan. 6 off the northbound lanes of the parkway, near the exit ramp to the eastbound lanes of the Patuxent Freeway (Route 32).

The collision caused "extreme damage to the vehicle," and the firefighters determined that the driver was dead, the fire department said.

The driver, an unidentified man, was the vehicle's lone occupant. The site of the collision is near Annapolis Junction, in the vicinity of Fort Meade and the U.S. National Security Agency.

The B-W Parkway is patrolled by the U.S. Park Police, which declined Monday to release the driver's identity or other details on the crash, according to the Capital Gazette.

The newspaper reported that an agency spokesman was unavailable to comment on the accident due to the federal government's partial shutdown. Many U.S. agencies have ceased all but vital operations due to the budget standoff between President Trump and Congress over funding for a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.

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Image: Anne Arundel firefighters look over the vehicle that was destroyed in Sunday night's fatal accident off the B-W Parkway (AACFD).