Three people are dead, and two others are injured, after a crash early Wednesday on Rock Creek Parkway in Washington, D.C., involving a vehicle that fled a traffic stop, police said.The driver fled. The officer didn’t pursue them and cleared the traffic stop, police said."We have policies and procedures that guide our actions," Sgt. Thomas Twiname of U.S. Park Police said. "Our officers are required to abide by those policies and procedures, and in this instance, the officer determined that the vehicle that fled did not meet the criteria for a pursuit."Shortly after the driver fled, officers responded to a devastating two-vehicle crash on Rock Creek Parkway, just south of the P Street exit, police said. It happened about 1:40 a.m. and was less than a mile from where the vehicle had been stopped.“The vehicle that the officer stopped fled that traffic stop,” Twiname said. “The officer did not pursue the vehicle. They cleared Rock Creek Parkway and were en route to another assignment. While en route to that other assignment, this crash was dispatched. When they responded to the scene, they were able to confirm that one of those vehicles involved in the crash was the vehicle that fled that traffic stop.”The Lexus crashed with a Honda Accord, killing three men in the Accord, according to Park Police. A woman in the Lexus suffered life-threatening injuries and a man suffered non-life-threatening injuries.Police have not said why the driver of the Lexus fled the traffic stop, but there is body-worn camera video from the officer who stopped the car to review. According to Department of Motor Vehicles records, there are 44 outstanding citations associated with the tags on the Lexus totaling $12,300 since May.