Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) detectives are investigating a traffic fatality that happened on the night of March 16.
According to preliminary investigation, at around 11:10 p.m., the operator of a Hyundai Sonata was travelling westbound in the far left lane on the 3600 block of New York Avenue, NE.
The operator of a commercial vehicle box truck was also travelling westbound in the center lane at the same time.
“The operator of the Hyundai Sonata then changed lanes, striking the commercial vehicle box truck, resulting in the truck overturning onto its passenger side,” the press release states.
Both operators were taken to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries. The front seat passenger of the commercial box truck was pronounced dead on the scene.
