David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize winning-journalist known for writing a number of well-regarded nonfiction books, including “The Best and the Brightest,” “The Powers that Be,” and “The Fifties,” died in a car accident on April 23 in Menlo Park, California. The 73-year-old writer was headed to an interview with Hall…
Although text messaging while driving is not considered illegal in Maryland, drivers could be fined if caught by police. A recent survey by Nationwide Mutual Insurance found that 37% of drivers between the ages of 18 and 27 engage in text message while driving. This can make the roads more…
In Frederick County, Maryland, a man and woman in a Chrysler Sebring died last Wednesday in a car crash resulting from a road rage incident. Maryland State Police say that according to witnesses, the driver of a green pickup truck and the man and woman in the Sebring exchanged obscene…
Shawn Wayne Gibson, 37, has been ordered by an Cecil County Judge to serve a nine-year prison term (three of those years have been suspended). He will also serve three years of supervised probation. Gibson is being held responsible for striking teenager Christopher Donovan Snyder with his 1996 Nissan Quest…
Baltimore city police say that two people were hurt after a GEO Prism traveling in the fast lane on the North Avenue overpass on the Jones Fall Expressway rear-ended a 1997 Chevy van and subsequently became involved in another collission. The two drivers had agreed to move to the shoulder…
Nicholas Sabath and his 17-year-old daughter Sylvia were killed last Wednesday night on Leitersburg Pike near Antietam Creek Bridge. According to police, Sabath was driving westbound on Md 60 in a 1989 Honda Accord when he tried to avoid a Pontiac Sunfire that crossed the center line east of Lehman.…
David Helms of Bethesda, Maryland, will serve seven years in jail and three years probation. The sentence was issued following his guilty plea last month to one count of DWI and manslaughter related to the July 11 car crash on an Interstate 70 ramp that killed Northwest High School teacher…
Carson Daniel Fehner, 12, was seriously injured last Tuesday when the minivan that his mother was driving turned left into the path of a tow truck. He sustained critical head trauma and was airlifted to Children’s National Medical Center in Washington D.C. His mother, Terri, was not hurt in the…
The Maryland State Police regularly put together a record of traffic accidents that occur on Maryland roads and categorize them by routes. Routes most often cited for where accidents often occur include the following areas: · Interstate 695 in Baltimore County · Maryland 2 in Anne Arundel County · U.S.…
Kadri Atalay, a 42-year-old man from Gaithersburg, Maryland, was charged with committing second-degree murder, after driving his Mercedes SUV on the wrong side of Wisconsin Avenue, NW, in Washington D.C. and hitting a Chrysler Sebring that was being driven by a 29-year-old DC man. The 29-year-old man was later declared…