Woman and her dog die when car strikes them on I-795 in Baltimore County

A 31-year-old woman and her dog died Wednesday night when a Hyundai Sonata struck them as they tried to cross Interstate 795 in Northwest Baltimore County, police said.

Maryland State Police said in a news release that troopers responded shortly after 8 p.m. to a report of a pedestrian-involved crash.

Madison Cecille Davis of Westminster parked her car on the left shoulder of I-795 near Mt. Wilson Lane after it ran out of gas, police said, then got out of the vehicle with her dog on a leash and attempted to cross the travel lanes.

The Hyundai Sonata, driving southbound on I-795, struck them, police said. Davis and her dog were pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the Sonata was transported to a hospital for treatment.

Davis is at least the third victim of a fatal crash along a Baltimore County highway that state police have investigated in recent months.

Francesca Lloyd, 34, of Nottingham died after she and her husband ran into the back of a tractor trailer along I-95 as they attempted to pull over to address a flat tire, state police said.

Days earlier, a 17-year-old Edgewood boy died after being struck by a Honda Accord while he was changing the tire of a Lexus IS in which he was a passenger, police said.

State data shows there have been 42 fatal crashes in Baltimore County this year, over a dozen of which included pedestrians. Baltimore County has the second-highest number of fatal crashes in Maryland after Prince George’s County, where 55 people have died in collisions this year.