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1 Dead After Crash On Suitland Parkway In D.C.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a crash on Suitland Parkway that left a man dead.

Police say it happened Friday around 7 p.m. when the driver of a 2008 GMC Yukon lost control of his car and collided with the bridge abutment for the Martin Luther King Avenue overpass.

Police identified the driver as 45-year-old Jeffery Asberry Ewings of Capitol Heights, Md.

The crash is under investigation.

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