A multiple-vehicle crash on the Baltimore Beltway near the Wilkens Avenue exit Wednesday morning left one man dead, three others injured and traffic backed up for hours.
According to police, at 9:30 a.m., Andrea Carter, a State Highway Administration worker, was picking up a tire thread in the third lane of the Beltway. She stopped her dump truck in the travel lane.
John Saglotti, a Catonsville man driving a Jeep sports utility vehicle, Wayne Watt, a Baltimore man driving a box truck, and John Salkauskas, a Baltimore man driving a ToyotaCamry, stopped their vehicles behind the dump truck.
But a Virginia man driving a tanker truck carrying about 20,000 pounds of carbon dioxide rear-ended the Camry, which was pushed to the left shoulder. The tanker truck driver, Robert Tolliver, then hit Watt?s truck, Scagotti?s Jeep and the State Highway Administration truck. Scaglotti?s Jeep flipped over and hit Carter.
Salkauskas, 86, of the unit block of Belle Grove Road, was taken to St. Agnes Hospital, where he was pronounced dead approximately two hours later.
Scaglotti, 24, and Carter, 28, were taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center with non-life-threatening emergencies. Watt, 42, was taken to St. Agnes Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Tolliver was not injured in the crash.
Police closed all the Outer Loop travel lanes and traffic was diverted until 2:30 p.m.
State Police are continuing to investigate the crash.
