The crash shut down the northbound lanes of I-83 at Exit 33 into Wednesday night
Two people died and four others were injured in a fiery, multivehicle crash on Interstate 83 in Baltimore County near the Pennsylvania border, Maryland State Police said.
A preliminary investigation found that a pickup truck hauling a trailer traveling southbound lost control, crossed into the northbound lanes of the highway and crashed into a mobile crane, the state police said.
Both vehicles became “engulfed in flames,” and the initial collision caused three other vehicles to crash. The drivers of the pickup truck and the mobile crane were declared dead at the scene.
The crash happened near Exit 33 of I-83 North, which is just north of Parkton and about five miles south of the Pennsylvania state line.
Police did not say whether the additional vehicles crashed on the southbound or the northbound lanes of the interstate highway. Authorities did not publicly identify the victims, citing the need to notify next of kin.
