MYERSVILLE, Md. — One man is dead after hitting a deer with his vehicle and then being hit himself early Friday morning.
WMAR reports that Jordan Scott Maddocks, 33, hit a deer sometime around 3 a.m. Friday morning on the westbound side of Interstate 70, just before the Maryland Route 17-Myersville exit in Frederick County.
Maddocks reportedly got out of his vehicle and checked it after hitting the deer and was then struck by a tractor-trailer.
“Police say three other people inside the vehicle at the time of the collision were not hurt,” WMAR reports. “The tractor-trailer driver also was not injured.”
The crash closed parts of I-70 for several hours.
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