Year: 2012
A single-vehicle accident in Salisbury, Maryland, that claimed the life of a 15-year-old boy is under investigation. The motor vehicle accident stemmed from a chase in which local police engaged with the young driver. State laws specify that a driver can get a learner’s permit when they reach 15 years and 9 months of age. However, […]
Prosecutors have filed additional charges against a Maryland man who allegedly drove while under the influence of drugs and caused a small child to suffer a brain injury in a motor vehicle accident. Police said the 48-year-old man rear-ended another car after using PCP on Dec. 16, 2011. He was allegedly speeding when he hit […]
Came across an interesting article in the Washington Post today about the government’s failure to turn over evidence in the case against the late senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska). Prosecutors failed to turn over evidence that could have helped the former senator refute corruption charges. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Mr. Stevens’s state of Alaska, has […]
Family members and co-workers were left to mourn the death of a 31-year-old Maryland woman, as police investigated the car accident that took her life. Police officials said they suspect they know part of the story. As the woman headed toward her job in the afternoon rush hour at a fast-food restaurant in Montgomery County, Maryland, two […]
The death of a 20-year-old Maryland man from a brain injury sustained in a car accident could help lead to sweeping changes to state law. The family of the man, who was a student at Johns Hopkins University at the time of his death in February 2011, is supporting legislation currently under consideration by the Maryland General […]
A family was left to mourn the deaths of three siblings who were trying to restart their lives, but were victims of a fatal car accident in the Baltimore suburb of Bel Air, Maryland. The accident killed a 29-year-old man, who had been released from jail just two months ago; his 24-year-old sister, who had two children; […]
The investigation is continuing on a three-car accident in rural Maryland that led to the death of a 24-year-old Baltimore woman. The accident appears to be a case of a driver who was in too big of a hurry, and that attitude cost a woman her life. The woman was a passenger in a 1994 Honda […]
A man who operated a popular social media page to inform his neighbors in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, of everything from community news to car crashes has died in a car accident. Police said the 32-year-old man, who was from the Baltimore suburb of Pasadena, Maryland, was speeding when his Acura collided with a BMW. The […]
Plenty of car accidents around Baltimore, Maryland, are caused by drowsy and inattentive drivers. A new commercially available technology may help prevent those car accidents by guiding drivers back to the center of their lane. Even though the technology may reduce car accidents caused by fatigue and inattentiveness, the technology may pose other risks. Lane-keeping systems […]
A study by two University of Maryland specialty schools found that people walking along streets while wearing headphones are more likely to be injured because they can’t hear what’s going on around them. The recently published report from the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore and the University of Maryland School of Medicine found […]