WASHINGTON — A crash on Interstate 395 late Sunday night left two cars overturned and one person dead, according to responding firefighters with DC Fire and EMS.
The crash was reported Sunday night on southbound I-395 near Exit 4 (Maine Avenue, Southwest).
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, a Hyundai Elantra was going southbound in the 9th Street Tunnel, when the driver began to take the westbound ramp and stuck the jersey wall twice, before crashing over the wall and falling onto I-395 southbound lanes below.
The Hyundai landed on the rear of a Lexus ES350 and flipped upside down and skidded on its roof and came to a stop. The Lexus also flipped onto its roof and then hit a Chevrolet Equinox.
When emergency crews responded to the scene, they found two vehicles had flipped onto their roofs.
The driver of the Hyundai was ejected from the car and died from his injuries. He has since been identified as 28-year-old Van Thomas Lee, of Pittsburgh, PA.
A person who was riding in the Hyundai and the driver of the Lexus were taken to area hospitals for help and are expected to be okay.
Southbound lanes of I-395 were closed for several hours overnight because of the crash investigation and clean-up. All lanes had reopened to traffic by 4 a.m.