Year: 2012
Maryland State Police are seeking the driver in a fatal car accident, whom police said struck a man and continued on. Police said the driver had to be aware that a man was hit on Interstate 97 because the investigation has shown that the body flew onto the hood of the missing driver’s vehicle and traveled […]
A Baltimore man was left clinging to life after allegedly being beaten by a fellow correctional facility inmate and sustaining a devastating personal injury. The man, 20, had been sentenced to a correctional facility in Cumberland, Maryland, after convictions on gun and drug distribution charges. Now, he is at a Baltimore hospital with a severe brain […]
Expectant mothers in Maryland and throughout the United States who take antidepressants during pregnancy could put their babies at risk for birth injuries or pre-term birth, or they even could suffer a miscarriage, said a newly issued report. The report, published in the journal “Human Reproduction,” said women who take the popular selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors put […]
The number of teenagers in Maryland and throughout the U.S. who wear bike helmets on a regular basis is almost zero, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That contributes to thousands of personal injuries each year. In fact, doctors in emergency rooms see 153,000 children each year, treating them for head injuries sustained while […]
The number of workers hurt on the job in companies in Maryland and the United States in 2011 amounted to 3.5 cases per 100 workers of full-time equivalency, a federal survey reports. In all, private employers said nearly 3 million nonfatal illnesses and injuries attributed to conditions in the workplace that occurred last year, according to estimates […]
A 28-year-old off-duty police officer was killed in a motor vehicle accident in Clinton, Maryland recently. The early results of the investigation showed that the driver of a SUV caused the crash. Police said the driver, a 61-year-old woman, will be charged in the death of the Prince George’s County officer, though the exact charges were not […]
The Maryland State Highway Administration will review the report regarding a fatal motor vehicle accident to determine if a Gaithersburg intersection could use a safety upgrade. The response is in reaction to a Sept. 23 accident that left a 69-year-old woman dead and the 77-year-old driver critically injured. Some residents of the area said the woman might […]
Representatives of a Maryland man who suffered life-threatening injuries in a car accident likely will file a personal injury lawsuit. The only question is the identity of the defendant or defendants. The accident occurred on Aug. 18 at a car wash in Edgewater, Maryland. The man, 45, was waiting at the car was when a 2007 GMC […]
A man who was texting while driving will pay $500,000 to a couple for causing an accident that resulted in them each losing a leg. The married couple was riding on a motorcycle in a mid-Atlantic state near Maryland in September of 2009 when a driver, then 19, left his lane and crossed into the motorcycle’s lane, […]
Two years after a Baltimore car accident took the life of a 24-year-old woman, a jury has ruled that the victim’s family should receive $760,000 in compensation. The woman was traveling through the intersection of 28th and North Calvert streets in Baltimore when her car collided with a SUV in June 2010. Her insurance company denied a […]