A 33-year-old Lusby man died late Tuesday night when his car left Rousby Hall Road and hit a tree, the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office said.

Deputies from the Patrol Bureau were called at 11:46 p.m. Oct. 13 to a serious crash near Rousby Hall Road and Maryland Avenue in Lusby. They found a single vehicle with one person inside who had life-threatening injuries.

According to a preliminary investigation, a 2021 Nissan Sentra was heading east on Rousby Hall Road near Maryland Avenue when it left the road and struck a tree. Emergency medical crews tried to save the driver, John Lawrence Connor, but he died at the scene, the Sheriff’s Office said.

The Sheriff’s Office did not say what caused the car to leave the road. The agency’s Crash Reconstruction Team responded, and Deputy First Class M. Daily is leading the investigation.

Witnesses sought

Anyone who saw the crash or what led up to it is asked to contact DFC Daily at 410-535-2800 or Michael.Daily@calvertcountymd.gov.

In a separate Calvert case, a Pikesville man was sentenced in September to 12 years for a fatal crash in Prince Frederick.

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