Driver Identified Who Was Trapped in Car Wreckage: Update

Updated at 11:10 a.m.

A Glen Burnie man whose speeding car plowed into two trees was critically injured when his lower extremities were trapped in the wreckage, authorities said.

The single-vehicle accident was reported about 2:15 a.m. Sunday morning on northbound Ritchie Highway just north of the intersection of Route 10 in Pasadena.

Anne Arundel County firefighters found a vehicle which had struck two trees at a high rate of speed, trapping the driver and lone occupant. The patient’s legs were severely entangled in the vehicle, and a request was made for a Maryland State Police helicopter and the GO-TEAM from the University of Maryland Shock Trauma.

The GO-TEAM is a physician-led team that can be requested when a patient has suspected life-threatening injuries and extrication times are expected to exceed one hour. The patient was extricated in about an hour before the GO-TEAM arrived at the crash site.

The driver -- Jordan Michael Ellenberger, 26, of 112 Sunset Drive in Glen Burnie -- was taken by Maryland State Police helicopter to Shock Trauma in critical condition.

»Photos of Pasadena crash site courtesy of Anne Arundel County Fire Department