Inner Loop site visitors is slowly getting by whereas Outer Loop site visitors on the Capital Beltway in Prince George’s County continues to be diverted to Allentown Road following a multivehicle crash that despatched several people to the hospital.
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A fiery crash involving a dump truck on the Capital Beltway in Maryland on Monday despatched several people to the hospital, together with two kids.
Inner Loop site visitors was slowly getting by whereas Outer Loop site visitors on the Capital Beltway in Prince George’s County continued to be diverted to Allentown Road following the multivehicle crash.
It occurred round 10:45 a.m. Monday on the Outer Loop of Interstate 495 at Pennsylvania Avenue. Crews discovered an overturned dump truck on fireplace. At least six people had been taken to the hospital, together with two in “important situation,” Prince George’s County Fire/EMs Department stated.
The driver and a toddler passenger of the dump truck had been taken to a burn heart in D.C., Maryland State Police stated. Two passengers in an SUV, one among whom was additionally a toddler, had been additionally taken to the hospital.
Police stated the truck was touring northbound on I-495 when it blew a tire, which induced it to go into the southbound lanes, the place it overturned after which caught on fireplace. The crash broken an overhead signal construction, Maryland Department of Transportation stated. At the identical time, an SUV touring southbound overturned because it tried to keep away from the truck.
Hazmat crews are on the scene, and the investigation is ongoing.
Below is the realm the place it occurred.
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