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.