Park Police officers responded to an accident in the parkway’s southbound lanes just after 10 p.m. on December 8th. The vehicle had gone off the road and struck a concrete bridge abutment on the parkway’s right shoulder. The driver and sole occupant was pronounced dead by Anne Arundel County Fire and Rescue. Park Police detectives and crash reconstruction experts investigated and documented the accident. The southbound lanes of the parkway just north of Route 32 had to be closed for approximately three hours. The victim’s identity is being withheld until proper notification of next of kin.