Document: Traffic Fatality in Southwest, DC

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Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) are investigating a traffic fatality that happened on Oct. 23 on I-395 Southwest, near Exit 2. 

Preliminary investigation revealed that, at around 4:30 a.m., a box truck was traveling southbound on I-395 when it collided with a construction flatbed truck, with two employees on the bed of the truck.

One of the employees, 44 year-old Anthony Edward Nickens of Capitol Heights, Md., succumbed to his injuries on Nov. 2.