Four adults and one child were injured yesterday afternoon - one of the adults critically - when their car was struck from behind by a Jeep on Interstate 295 near Arundel Mills, state police said.

The 1999 Chevrolet Prizm hit a guardrail and flew into the air after it was hit by a 1995 Jeep Wrangler driven by Joseph Glarden Jr., 24, of Baltimore, police said. The Jeep turned over and slid to a stop.

The Prizm had just turned from Arundel Mills Boulevard onto southbound I-295 when the crash occurred about 4:30 p.m.

The driver of the Jeep had minor injuries, police reported. The driver of the Prizm, Anthony Taylor, and his wife, Eileen, both 42 and from Burtonsville, were taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, as was the woman's sister, Deidre Evans, 28, of Niagara Falls, N.Y.

Eileen Taylor's mother, Viola Deluca, 83, of Niagara Falls, was in critical condition after suffering a heart attack and was taken to Shock Trauma. The couple's 7-year-old daughter, Anna, was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries.

State police are investigating.