(ELLICOTT CITY, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police are investigating a fatal crash that occurred early Monday morning in Howard County.<\/p>\n
The victim is identified as Fred Eromosele Ehimen, 49, of Columbia, Maryland. Ehimen was the driver and sole occupant of a Toyota Camry involved in the crash. Ehimen was pronounced deceased on the scene by emergency medical personnel.<\/p>\n
Shortly before 12:30 a.m., troopers from the Maryland State Police Waterloo Barrack responded to the area of the ramp from westbound Interstate 70 to southbound U.S. 29 in Ellicott City for reports of a motor vehicle crash. According to a preliminary investigation, a 2013 Ford Explorer, driven by a 17-year-old man from Baltimore, was traveling the wrong direction on the I-70 ramp when it struck the Toyota Camry head on, operated by Ehiman.<\/p>\n
The 17-year-old was flown to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center by MSP Aviation Command. Two additional passengers in the Explorer, a 13-year-old and 16-year-old, were transported to local hospitals by ambulance.<\/p>\n
Through the continued investigation it was revealed that prior to the crash, Frederick County Sheriff\u2019s Deputies determined the Explorer was stolen which subsequently led to a pursuit involving the Frederick County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Howard County Police Department. The pursuit had been terminated for several miles prior to the crash.<\/span><\/p>\n Personnel from the Howard County Police Department and Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration assisted with the road closure.<\/p>\n The Maryland State Police Crash Team is leading the investigation. Charges are pending consultation with the Office of the State\u2019s Attorney for Howard County. The investigation remains active and ongoing.<\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n CONTACT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Office of Media Communications, msp.media@maryland.gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (ELLICOTT CITY, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police are investigating a fatal crash that occurred early Monday morning in Howard County. The victim is identified as Fred Eromosele Ehimen, 49, of Columbia, Maryland. Ehimen was the driver and sole occupant of a Toyota Camry involved in the crash. Ehimen was pronounced deceased on the scene by Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29571,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29569\/revisions\/29571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}