Two Salisbury residents die in a car accident on Route 50

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Maryland State Police are investigating the double-fatal single-vehicle crash that occurred Sunday evening in Dorchester County.

Shortly before 10 p.m. on November 3, Maryland State Police Easton Barrack troopers responded to the area of ​​eastbound Route 50 near Austin Road for a report of a single-vehicle accident. According to initial investigations, a Subaru traveling east left the road for unknown reasons, crashed into a utility pole and then caught fire.

The driver, identified as Shankar Mondal, 54, of Salisbury, Maryland, was pronounced dead at the scene. A passenger, Quail Dasgupta, 37, also of Salisbury, Maryland, was transported by ambulance to Maryland Shore Regional Health in Cambridge, where she was later pronounced dead. A 1-year-old girl was flown by the Maryland State Police Aviation Command to Johns Hopkins Pediatric Hospital in Baltimore for treatment of her injuries.