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One man killed after his pickup leaves the icy Route 214 roadway in Kettering and overturns in the median

Date: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Area: 
Richmond-Petersburg, VA
Maryland State Police said they were investigating a fatal accident Wednesday morning in Prince George’s County, as officials throughout the area warned drivers to slow down because of icy road conditions caused when Tuesday night’s snow melted and freezing temperatures made roads slick. The fatal accident occurred around 5 a.m. on the westbound side of Route 214 and St. Michaels Drive in Kettering, where police responded to a report of an overturned 1994 Dodge pick-up truck on the road. The driver, an adult male, was pronounced dead on the scene, police said.

Larry Allen Martz, 50, killed, after his car that was traveling the wrong way on I-70 collides with a pickup near Hancock, Maryland

Date: 
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Area: 
Washington, DC
Maryland State Police say a Pennsylvania man has died after a car traveling the wrong way on Interstate 70 hit a pickup truck head-on. Police say a Pontiac Bonneville was traveling westbound in eastbound lanes of I-70 near Hancock on Sunday night when it collided head-on with a Chevrolet Silverado. The driver of the Pontiac, 50-year-old Larry Allen Martz of Mayport, Pa., was flown to Meritus Medical Center, where police say he was later pronounced dead. The three people in the truck were treated on the scene and released.

9-year-old- girl seriously injured, two adults suffer minor injuries, all taken to hospital, after a two-car crash on Marlboro Pike in District Heights, forces a taxi cab into a bus stop, striking the girl.

Date: 
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Area: 
Washington, DC

A nine-year-old girl was seriously injured Thursday morning when she was struck by a taxi while waiting with her brother at a bus stop in District Heights, Md.

Prince George's County Police said the incident was the result of a car accident shortly before 7:55 a.m., when a car hit a taxi near the bus stop. The impact pushed the taxi onto the curb, hitting the girl.

It happened in the 5500 block of Marlboro Pike.

The girl received serious but non-life-threatening injuries.Two adults were also injured, but not seriously.

The driver remained on the scene.

Two people injured, taken to hospital, after a tractor-trailer collides with another vehicle on Reisterstown Road in Baltimore.

Date: 
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Area: 
Baltimore, MD

A tractor-trailer overturned in northwest Baltimore after it collided with another vehicle on Reisterstown Road early Sunday, police said.

The truck was headed southbound when the accident occurred at 7:15 am in front of a 7-Eleven convenience store in the 5100 block of Reisterstown Road, near Belvedere Avenue. The tractor-trailer came to rest within a few feet of the store's front door, a 7-Eleven cashier said. A bus stop was also destroyed in crash.

Esther Digiovanni, 68, and Joseph A. Digiovanni, 69, killed after their jeep is rear-ended by a pickup at a road construction site on I-81 in Williamsport, Maryland

Date: 
Monday, March 10, 2014
Area: 
Washington, DC
Maryland State Police troopers say two people have died following a three-car crash on I-81 in Williamsport. The State Police says it happened at about 11:20 a.m. Tuesday. Authorities say an investigation found that a 2004 Jeep slowed due to a backup related to road construction. Troopers say the driver of a 2010 Ford pickup truck failed to notice the backed up traffic and hit the Jeep, which erupted in flames. The truck then hit a 1994 Chevrolet Blazer.

Two people injured, one seriously, after a car and tractor-trailer collide on I-95 near Laurel in Prince George's County, Maryland

Date: 
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Area: 
Washington, DC
Two people were injured, one seriously, when a tractor trailer and a passenger car crashed on I-95 Sunday night, flipping the 18-wheeler on its side and setting it on fire. All southbound lanes of I-95 were closed in the area of Brooklyn Bridge Road in Laurel, near the Howard County-Prince George's County line, according to police. Two patients were transported for treatment, one to a local hospital with minor injuries, one to a trauma center with serious, non-life-threatening injuries. The tractor trailer was carrying produce, police said.

Dawn Christian Hoerr, 49, critically injured, airlifted to hospital, after her car leaves a roadway, overturns and crashes into a creek near Dublin.

Date: 
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Area: 
Baltimore, MD

A 49-year-old woman was flown to shock trauma Friday evening after a single-car accident on Ady Road in Dublin.

Dawn Christian Hoerr, of the 500 block of Chestnut Hill Road in Forest Hill, was driving a Kia station wagon south on Route 543 near Heaps School Road around 6:20 p.m., according to the Maryland State Police Bel Air Barrack.

Witnesses said the car was swerving "all over the road," police said.

The car went off the right shoulder, overturned and went down into a creek that was at least 30 feet off the road, police said.

One man killed, after his stolen ATV quits on train tracks in Rosedale and he is struck by a passenger train.

Date: 
Monday, March 3, 2014
Area: 
Baltimore, MD
All Amtrak and MARC rail service between Baltimore and Wilmington was suspended for several hours Tuesday evening after a man was killed on train tracks in Rosedale, rail and police officials said. Baltimore County Police believe the man failed to hear the train coming toward him at a high rate of speed after a stolen ATV in his possession "broke down on him next to the tracks just prior to the accident."

Lee Mahoney, 73, struck and killed by a parked car, owned by David Adam Garman, 23, as it rolled down a hill in Edgewater.

Date: 
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Area: 
Baltimore, MD

Gathered in front of Lee Mahoney's longtime home on Chesapeake Drive, her family balanced their grief with fond memories of the 73-year old matriarch who died in a freak accident.

"She raised generations of kids. She always helped everybody. Anybody who needed her---she was always there, and she was a really wonderful person and she's going to be really missed by everybody," said Jessica Turner, one of her granddaughters.

4 vehicles and tractor-trailer collide on the snowy Inner Loop of the Beltway just outside Washington D.C.

Date: 
Monday, February 17, 2014
Area: 
Washington, DC
A multi-vehicle crash caused some major delays on the Inner Loop of the Beltway Tuesday morning. Maryland State Police say four vehicles and a tractor-trailer were involved in the accident at the Ritchie Marlboro exit. The Inner Loop was shut down at 6 a.m. and stayed that way for just under an hour. At least one person was evaluated for injury; there's no word on any additional injuries. Police have not commented on what may have caused the accident, but an overnight dusting of snow left some roads in the D.C. area slick.