Shortly after midnight on Thursday morning, officers were called to the intersection of Fort Smallwood Road at the intersection of Bay Harbor Road in Pasadena, where there was an Infiniti G37 that smashed into the pole.
According to investigators, the driver, Meziah Johnson, 23, lost control and the Infiniti left the road at the intersection and hit the pole.
Johnson suffered life-threatening injuries, police say, and his passenger, 22-year-old Damione Gardner was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash.
Both Johnson and Gardner are from Baltimore.
The crash remains under investigation. Johnson's condition was not immediately available on Friday morning.
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