Part of Route 28 still shut down due to fatal ax in Mogo Co.@wtop pic.twitter.com/Vuswrq5dd5
— Kathy Stewart (@KStewartWTOP) September 30, 2015
Deadly fiery crash Rt 28/Darnestown Rd which is shut down between Bellingham Dr and Rt 107 for morning rush.@wtop pic.twitter.com/J0ubdHYJbx
— Kathy Stewart (@KStewartWTOP) September 30, 2015
![Crews are still working to upright and remove a vehicle that overturned and cauight fire on Darnestown Road at about 3 a.m. Wednesday, killing the driver. (WTOP/Kathy Stewart)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/DARNESTOWN-CRASH-ZOOM.jpg)
![Crews are still working to upright and remove a vehicle that overturned and cauight fire on Darnestown Road at about 3 a.m. Wednesday, killing the driver. (WTOP/Kathy Stewart)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/DARNESTOWN-CRASH.jpg)
![Part of Darnestown Road is closed after a crash and vehicle fire that killed a man early Wednesday morning. (Montgomery County Fire and Rescue/Pete Piringer)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/DARNESTOWN-VEHICLE-FIRE.png)
![Crews are still working to upright and remove a vehicle that overturned and cauight fire on Darnestown Road at about 3 a.m. Wednesday, killing the driver. (WTOP/Kathy Stewart)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/DARNESTOWN-CRASH-ZOOM-260x174.jpg)
![Crews are still working to upright and remove a vehicle that overturned and cauight fire on Darnestown Road at about 3 a.m. Wednesday, killing the driver. (WTOP/Kathy Stewart)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/DARNESTOWN-CRASH-260x174.jpg)
![Part of Darnestown Road is closed after a crash and vehicle fire that killed a man early Wednesday morning. (Montgomery County Fire and Rescue/Pete Piringer)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/DARNESTOWN-VEHICLE-FIRE-260x174.png)
WASHINGTON — One man is dead after a crash in Montgomery County, Maryland, early Wednesday morning.
The Montgomery County police say that a vehicle was headed east on Darnestown Road, east of the intersection with Route 107, when it left the road, hit a tree off the eastbound shoulder, came to rest on its side on the westbound shoulder and caught fire. The driver, whose name has not been released yet, was killed; no one else was in the car, the police say.
Darnestown Road was closed between Whites Ferry and Germantown roads, near Black Rock Road, until about 8:20 a.m.