Highway 305 may still be closed by the time the evening commute starts as officials investigate a fatality car crash on Highway 305 on the north end of Bainbridge Island.

A Platt Electric Supply box truck was traveling south on Highway 305 when it collided with a Jeep Wrangler Sahara that was turning onto the highway at West Port Madison Road.

Bainbridge Island Fire Department Assistant Chief Luke Carpenter said the truck “T-boned” the Jeep, and witnesses reported the crash at 11:32 a.m. Wednesday.

The driver of the Jeep was killed in the crash. Carpenter said he was not a Bainbridge Island resident.

Police and emergency workers were waiting until the arrival of the county coroner before removing the man from the Jeep.

The driver of the Platt truck was taken to Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton.

Carpenter said the driver did not have any apparent injuries, but was transported to the hospital as a precaution.

Debris from the crash was scattered across all lanes of the highway, and the two vehicles remained in the middle of the highway, with the front of the truck embedded in the side of the Jeep, at the 305-West Port Madison Road intersection.

Both lanes of the highway were closed just after the collision, and northbound traffic was being diverted onto Seabold Church Road. Police were detouring drivers heading south on Highway 305 to NE Seabold Road.

Officials estimated the road could be closed for another three hours.

Traffic going north on Bainbridge was backed up for nearly three miles on the highway just after 1 p.m.