Driver dies in Rock Creek Park as car leaves road, police say Martin Weil A motorist was killed in Rock Creek Park Sunday evening when her car left the road and crashed, the U.S. Park Police said. The car left the southbound lanes of Rock Creek Parkway near Beach Drive shortly after 5 p.m. and came to rest on the bike trail, the police said. The driver died at the scene, said Sgt. Roselyn Norment, the park police spokeswoman. The site of the crash was near the Taft Bridge on Connecticut Avenue NW. The name and age of the driver and the cause of the crash were not immediately available.