A New Jersey carjacking suspect was arrested after he hit a police roadblock just before the Fort McHenry Tunnel on Interstate 95 south Thursday night, damaging three police cars and the allegedly stolen car he was driving, Maryland State Police said.
But the damage didn't end there.
Drivers heading northbound on the expressway got into a six-car pileup while craning their necks to see what had caused the commotion in the opposite lanes, Maryland Transportation Authority police said.
The carjacking suspect, Trent S. Talley, 29, and one driver in the northbound crash were taken to a city hospital for treatment of minor injuries. Traffic snarled both ways during rush hour Thursday.
The owner of the 2013 Kia Sol, who said it had been carjacked earlier Thursday afternoon at a mental health facility in Mt. Holly, N.J., called state police at about 5 p.m. to say he had tracked the car by GPS to the Maryland House rest stop on I-95.
New Jersey authorities said they had contacted other agencies in Pennsylvania to try to stop the car on its way south, unsuccessfully.
Troopers tried to pull the car over on I-95 south near New Forge Road, but the driver sped off, police said. The troopers called MdTA police, who put down stop sticks near O'Donnell Street to deflate two of the car's tires before state troopers boxed it in using a "rolling roadblock" technique and forced him to stop, police said.
Talley was treated for cuts on his hands, which police said may have been due to his breaking a window during the initial incident. He was arrested and is expected to be charged in Maryland before being extradited to New Jersey.
twitter.com/cmcampbell6