One person is dead after a crash on Interstate 70 early Thursday in New Market, Maryland.
Maryland State Police said around 3 a.m. a tanker semi-trailer and a passenger car, believed to be a Honda Civic, going east on the interstate crashed.
“The passenger car was fully engulfed in flames and one unidentified occupant was located deceased inside,” police said in a news release.
The man in the semi-trailer was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Eastbound I-70 reopened around 8:45 a.m.
Westbound I-70 reopened just after 9 a.m.
