Blue sedan speeding, driving erratically possibly contributed to 23-car crash on Chesapeake Bay Bridge

Blue sedan speeding, driving erratically possibly contributed to 23-car crash on Bay Bridge 00:39

BALTIMORE – Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) Police are looking for witnesses who saw the chain-reaction 23-car crash on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge over the weekend.

Maryland’s Bay Bridge re-opened after collision injures over a dozen people, causes major delays 01:36

MDTA says a speeding blue 2018 Honda Civic may have contributed to a chain-reaction 23-car crash on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge over the weekend.

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MDTA released a stock photo of the car in question.

Authorities said the car was traveling westbound on the Bay Bridge on US 50 at a high rate of speed and erratically between 7:30 a.m. and 7:45 a.m. on Saturday.

Another 20 vehicles were involved in a series of secondary crashes, transportation officials said on Saturday afternoon.

Multiple injuries were reported, according to MDTA, and the Bay Bridge was closed for hours.

The multi-vehicle collision sent two people to local hospitals with serious injuries and 11 other people went to local hospitals, too. None of the injuries are believed to be life-threatening, transportation officials said.

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