Category: Car Accidents
A motor vehicle accident on the Jones Falls Expressway resulted in both a police officer and a tow truck driver who were attempting to assist being injured in a second subsequent accident. At approximately 6:15 p.m., the officer was engaged in an investigation of a single vehicle accident involving an SUV. That crash took place in the […]
A 43-year-old male motorist alleged to have been drug intoxicated at the time of the incident has been charged with vehicular homicide, and other charges, from a car crash outside Baltimore’s City Hall that killed a pedestrian. Such car accidents involving drunk or drug impaired drivers frequently cause serious injuries and deaths of innocent persons. Police investigators […]
They survived combat in Iraq or Afghanistan. But all too many returning military veterans are meeting untimely deaths in fatal car accidents here at home. Statistics show that those coming back to the U.S. after serving in such theatres of war experience fatal car accidents at a rate that is a full 75 percent more than […]
A family and neighborhood in Middle River, Maryland, are in mourning after a beloved 9-year-old girl was struck down and killed by a car while crossing the street. Car accidents that take the lives of pedestrians often include children or the elderly. In this incident, the parents assert that the child had carefully looked both ways as […]
For those drivers that think they have found a safe way to approach driving while texting, they might want to think again. Instead of manually text messaging on a phone, drivers might use a feature that allows them to speak the words, which will translate to text in the message. While this might seem like a […]
Many people choose to ignore the fact that older drivers are more prone to a motor vehicle accident. While reliable statistics back up that notion, lawmakers and voters are leery of doing anything about it in fear that they will alienate members of that demographic. Perhaps, in Maryland, it is time to set aside fears of […]
A tour bus company that recorded an instance of unsafe driving in Maryland back in 2011 has struck again. A motor vehicle accident involving a bus from the same company recently sent 35 individuals to the hospital with injuries. A 17-year-old individual that was left in critical condition sustained the worst of the injuries. The accident occurred […]
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 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 […]