One man died and another was seriously injured after an early Sunday morning crash on the Northbound Baltimore-Washington Parkway, according to U.S. Park Police. The crash happened around 3:45 a.m. and closed the northbound stretch of the parkway from Greenbelt Road to Powder Mill road for over four hours, according to the WTOP Traffic Center.
Baltimore-Washington Pkwy NB is now OPEN btwn MD-193/Greenbelt Rd and Powder Mill Rd, overnight crash investigation has CLEARED #Greenbelt #MdTraffic #DCTraffic
Traffic🔗 https://t.co/nb3VFR1abs Listen 🔗 https://t.co/KpJlqpKxN7 pic.twitter.com/ANiGU2HIZM — WTOP Traffic (@WTOPtraffic) October 11, 2020
The road reopened around 8 a.m. All northbound traffic on the parkway was diverted to Greenbelt Road, at which point the WTOP Traffic Center reported Route 1 and Interstate 95 were viable options for drivers.
MD #Greenbelt UPDATE B-W Pkwy NB diverted to MD-193/Greenbelt Rd by crash investigation. #mdtraffic #dctraffic Listen live to WTOP’s latest traffic reports every 10 minutes on the 8s. https://t.co/k7ONQAzTiR https://t.co/7353Pm4ZjY
— WTOP Traffic (@WTOPtraffic) October 11, 2020
Traffic on the southbound portion of the parkway was unaffected. WTOP’s Mary De Pompa contributed to this report. This story will be updated.