A young adult is dead and another person is injured after a fiery single-car crash along the Capital Beltway (Interstate 495) in Montgomery County, Maryland, Tuesday morning, fire officials said.
About 5 a.m., the driver of a Chevy Cobalt traveled off the right side of the Beltway's Inner Loop, near Rockville Pike (MD-355), Maryland State said. The car hit an embankment and then a tree before going up in flames.
The driver was treated at the scene but did not survive, Montgomery County Fire & Rescue spokesperson Pete Piringer said. Maryland State Police identified the driver as Tera King, 18, of Woodbridge, Virginia. King was pronounced dead at the scene by Montgomery County EMS personnel, state police said.
The one passenger in the car, a 20-year-old man, was taken by ambulance to a hospital, state police said. He is expected to survive, Piringer said.
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The cause of the crash remains under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call Maryland State Police's Rockville Barrack at 301-424-2101.
A second crash involving four or five cars left an unknown number of people injured nearby on the Outer Loop of the Beltway about 5:45 a.m., officials said.
Stay with News4 for more on this developing story.
