BLADENSBURG, Md. — A man has died after being hit by a dump truck as he was trying to cross a busy street in Bladensburg, Maryland, early Tuesday morning.
Investigators say he was hit around 6:20 a.m. in the middle of Kenilworth Avenue, just north of Annapolis Road. Kenilworth Avenue was reopened at about 9:30.
“When officers arrived on the scene, they found an adult male in the roadway suffering from trauma,” said Cpl. Harry Bond, spokesman for the Prince George’s County police. “He was pronounced dead at the scene.”
The driver of the truck stopped and cooperated with officers who responded to the incident, Bond said.
“He realized that he hit someone so he came immediately right back to the scene,” said Bond. “He did exactly what we ask anyone in this situation to do.”
Just before the crash, Bond said, the driver left the driveway of a nearby business and was traveling southbound on Kenilworth. After he hit the man, the driver pulled into a gas station parking lot and remained in the area. As of Tuesday morning, investigators were still working to contact family members of the man who was hit, and they did not publicly release his name.
Police say the man was not in a crosswalk.
“Kenilworth Avenue is a busy thoroughfare so we always stress to pedestrians, please use a crosswalk, and we stress to our drivers, please slow down,” Bond said.
The crash happened less than one week after another fatal pedestrian crash in Prince George’s County: A man was walking across Berry Road in Accokeek last week Wednesday, also not using a crosswalk, when he was hit by an SUV.
Police say George Lewis, 58, was then hit by two other cars and died at the scene. All drivers involved stayed on the scene and cooperated with the police investigation.
“It’s tragic but it’s something that does happen,” said Bond. “If there’s a crosswalk, please utilize it.”
