An 89-year-old man who was missing from St. Mary's County, Maryland, died in a single-car crash Wednesday near a D.C. bridge, authorities said.
John Alfonso Candela, of California, Maryland, had been reported missing the previous afternoon.
The St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office issued a lookout for Candela on Tuesday afternoon, saying he was last seen that day about 12:50 p.m. He had "a cognitive impairment," the sheriff's office said, and was driving a dark blue Hyundai Santa Fe with Maryland tags.
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About 2:20 a.m. Wednesday, D.C. police say, Candela was driving north on S. Capitol Street near the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge when he lost control at a curve. Candela's car crashed into a drainage ditch.
He was taken to a hospital, where he died, D.C. police said.
D.C. police are investigating the crash. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 202-727-9099 or text their tip to the police department's TEXT TIP LINE at 50411.
