BALTIMORE — A man was killed Sunday night on I-395 in downtown Baltimore when he was knocked off the jersey wall and into the water.
The man, later identified as Robert Taylor Horne, 50, of Smithsburg, stopped to help victims of a crash in the southbound lanes around 9:45 p.m. Medic units were also on scene.
Another driver hit the vehicles involved in the first crash, sending Horne in to the water, according to Baltimore City Fire spokesperson Kevin Cartwright.
"We dispatched our special rescue operations, our dive team, the Office of Emergency Management to this location where they deployed boats into the water combing through that area trying to find a victim. Within moments, they did locate an adult male victim unconscious, non-responsive," says Cartwright.
Horne was pronounced dead on the scene.
Cartwright did say that he was not a first responder.
Southbound/ I-395 @ I-95 Police activity. ALL LANES CLOSED pic.twitter.com/G0IfdRxTMm
— MDTA (@TheMDTA) August 14, 2023
All lanes were closed for hours while the crashes were being investigated.
They reopened just before 2 a.m. on Monday, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority.
