A man and a woman from Acton were killed in a crash after hitting a deer on Interstate 495 in Chelmsford Friday morning, State Police said.
The victims were identified late Friday night as Rudolph Vah, 53, the driver, and Jartu Flamma, the passenger, State Police said.
Patrols from the State Police Concord Barracks responded at around 4:50 a.m. to the SUV crash at the 87.5 mile marker on I-495, Trooper Brandon Doherty, a spokesman for State Police, said in an e-mail.
After striking the deer, the SUV “veered into the median, went airborne, and struck several trees,” Doherty wrote.
When troopers arrived at the scene, they found a 2016 Nissan Rogue “in a cropping of trees in the median,” officials said.
Vah and Flamma were pronounced dead on the scene, officials said.
The deer was killed in the crash. No other vehicles were involved, Doherty said.
“The left lanes of Route 495 North and southbound were closed until approximately 10 a.m.,” Doherty said.
State Police are investigating the crash with help from State Police’s collision analysis and reconstruction section and State Police’s crime scene services section.
Correspondent Adam Sennott contributed to this story.
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