Crime & Safety

Infant Among Victims in Fatal I-295 Crash

The Weekend car crash killed three people, including a 3-month-old.

A 3-month-old infant is among three people killed during a car crash along Baltimore-Washington Parkway/I-295 early Saturday, according to reports.

The happened around 2:30 a.m. when a vehicle carrying seven people traveling south on the parkway south of Route 197 left the road and hit a tree, according to The Gazette.

Mark Brady, spokesman for Prince George's County Fire/EMS, said that two people, a woman and a teenaged girl, were pronounced dead at the scene, and a 3-month-old was pronounced dead at a local hospital.

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Some of the victims were ejected from the car, Brady said, or trapped inside the vehicle. 

The crash shut down southbound lanes on the parkway for hours. The names of the victims have not yet been released.

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