Driver dies, passenger critically injured after car strikes utility pole early Saturday in Baltimore

A man died at the hospital early Saturday morning after a car he was driving hit a utility pole near the border of Mount Vernon and Downtown, Baltimore Police said.

Police responded to the intersection of East Franklin Street and St. Paul Place around 2 a.m. for a call relating to a single vehicle crash.

Officers found a car had struck a utility pole and medics brought the 38-year-old driver and his 35-year-old male passenger to a local hospital. The driver was pronounced dead...