The driver of a car that slammed into a tree killing a Naval Academy student early Friday morning had been drinking prior to the crash, Anne Arundel County police said.
Junior midshipman Charles D. Carr, 20, of Edgewater, was a passenger in a BMW driven by 22-year-old Patrick Tormay Britton-Harr, police said. The car was traveling northbound around a curve on Glen Isle Road near Riva Road in Annapolis around 1:30 a.m. Friday when the driver lost control, hitting four wooden posts before careening head-on into a large tree.
Carr was declared dead on the scene, and evidence indicated both Carr and Tormay Britton-Harr had been drinking prior to the collision, police said.
They obtained a blood sample from Tormay Britton-Harr, which will be tested by state police to determine his blood-alcohol level. Charges are pending the investigation.
The Naval Academy issued a statement saying the school family is “deeply saddened by the loss.” Academy spokesman Cmdr. Ed Austin said Tormay Britton-Harr was not a Naval Academy midshipman and said he will not know if Carr was in violation of school alcohol policies until after the police investigation.
Reached at Carr?s home on the 100 block of Park Avenue in Edgewater, a woman who identified herself as a member of his family said they were “too numb” to speak to the press at that time.
Tormay Britton-Harr, of Pensacola, Fla., suffered leg and arm injuries and was admitted to Prince George?s Medical Center. He was listed in stable condition Friday afternoon.
