BALTIMORE — The two vehicles that collided last month on the Baltimore Beltway, ultimately killing six highway workers, were speeding before they crashed, causing one vehicle to enter an access point and work zone, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board.
The preliminary assessment released by the board Thursday does not reveal many new details on the March 22 crash on Interstate 695 that killed five employees of Concrete General and one inspector, who were all struck by a vehicle involved. The federal board is still probing the crash for the purpose of issuing safety recommendations, and it expects to release a full report in about a year.
The two vehicles involved in the crash, a 2017 Acura TLX and a 2017 Volkswagen Jetta, were “reportedly traveling at speeds higher than the posted limit of 55 mph, the regular speed for the beltway and greater than the speed of the adjacent traffic,” the safety board said in its report. The vehicles collided, causing the Acura to “spin out of control” and pass through an opening in concrete barriers for the work zone in the median, located in Woodlawn north of Dogwood Road.
