SECOND MAN SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES SUFFERED IN BURTONSVILLE, MARYLAND CRASH

A second man has died from injuries suffered in a Monday crash on Route 29 in Burtonsville, authorities said. James Cronin, 37, of the 7200 block of Judy Road in Glen Burnie, has died. Martin Ruffin, 28, of Baltimore, died at the scene.

Cronin and Ruffin were among five workers were taking a break at about 1 p.m. Monday when a white Ford Econoline 150 work van traveling north swerved out of control and hit a parked truck in the construction line, police said. That truck hit another truck in front of it, pushing it into a cement mixer. The impact forced the work van to the right, where it struck all five workers, who were sitting on the guardrail nearby, police said.

Hugo Perez, 28, of Columbia; Jose Padillo, 35, of Glen Burnie; and Rafael Ramos, 30, of Columbia, were all taken to hospitals and are expected to survive. The driver got out of the van and ran into a wooded area that surrounds U.S. 29. Police said there may have been passengers in the van who also ran.

Police said the van is registered to an individual, not a company. The driver of the van, Manuel De Jesus Gonzalez-Geronimo, 31, of Hyattsville, turned himself in to Prince George's County police at about 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Prince George's County police then turned Gonzalez-Geronimo over to Montgomery County police.

He has been charged with failure to immediately return and remain at the scene of a collision involving death, failure to immediately stop a vehicle at the scene of a collision involving bodily injury and driving without a license.

Gonzalez-Geronimo is currently being held on $150,000 bond at the Montgomery County Detention Center.

Crews closed U.S. 29 in both directions for several hours Monday to investigate the crash. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.