Two people were killed and a state trooper was injured in a car collision over the weekend on Interstate 95, state police said.
Shawn Miles, 21, of the 6400 block of Woodburn Avenue in Elkridge, and Gerald Dorsey Jr., 31, of the 500 block of Dorsey Avenue in Essex, died at the scene following a head-on collision at about 3 a.m. Saturday in Baltimore County north of White Marsh, police said.
Miles and a passenger were traveling southbound on the northbound side of I-95 in a 1993 Chevy Blazer when a 2006 Hyundai Elantra, driven by Dorsey and traveling northbound in the same lane, struck the Blazer head-on, police said.
Trooper Ryan McNeely, 24, a member of the state police for three years who is assigned to the JFK Barracks, was heading northbound on I-95 in the same area when he heard the call for a vehicle traveling southbound on the northbound side of I-95.
Moments later, McNeely came upon the collision and tried to avoid it by turning left. His car bounced off the jersey wall and struck the Elantra.
McNeely was flown to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore City with neck and back injuries.
The Blazer?s passenger, Edward Henehan III, 25, of the 6600 block of Marne Avenue in Baltimore City, also was flown to Shock Trauma with minor injuries.
Lanes were closed on northbound I-95 for about two hours as Baltimore County fire and rescue personnel responded, and the State Highway Administration created detours around the crash scene.
A state police spokesman said Sunday that police do not know why the Blazer was traveling in the wrong direction, but the state police CRASH Team is conducting a detailed reconstruction of the crash.
