Andrew’s Law, a bill that would require the Motor Vehicle Administration to let people who are applying for a driver’s license or other forms of state identification list three emergency contact numbers, has a good chance of being passed by the Maryland General Assembly, says bill sponsor Delegate Gail Bates.…
Maryland police say that seven people were injured on the Capital Beltway yesterday, after a tractor-trailer hit the back of a fire truck and then collided with two other vehicles. According to a witness, the fire truck was decreasing its speed to take an emergency lane when the tractor-trailer rear-ended…
More than 70 people have joined together to sue ConAgra Foods for personal injury. ConAgra is the packaged food company that produces some of the jars of Peter Pan Peanut Butter and Great Value Peanut Butter. Other individual lawsuits are also pending. ConAgra has agreed to a recall of the…
In Washington D.C., A couple in their 20’s were taken to a local hospital last night, after they were struck by a light blue 4-door Honda Accord while they were crossing Wisconsin Avenue close to Tenley Circle. The impact of the car collision threw one of the victims 50 feet.…
Montgomery County Police are reporting a two-bus collision after a Ride On Bus rear-ended a Metrobus on Viers Mill Road. More than two dozen people were hurt—most of the injuries reportedly minor. More than two dozen people were hurt Monday morning after two buses collided in Kensington, Maryland. Bus Accidents…
Investigators In Ocean City, Maryland say that they have positively identified two of the people who were killed when a mobile home on 135th street caught fire. William Alascio, 49, and Jacqueline Robusto, 44. Robusto was ID’d after a fingerprint comparison conducted by the Maryland State Fire Marshall’s Office. Alascio’s…
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…
Mary Dorothy Reinhardt, a Hagerstown resident, was hit by a 1993 Honda Del Sol in a pedestrian accident last Friday, while walking eastward on U.S. 40 in the travel lane. Maryland State Police say she later died at Washington County Hospital. The driver of the Honda, 28-year-old Rocky Lynn Bishop,…
A fire cadet and a fire lieutenant where injured during two separate live fire exercises in Baltimore earlier this month. The recruit, Daniel Nott, sustained a first-degree burn on his cheek while Lieutenant Sam Darby sustained a burn injury on his hand. A fire department spokesman said that mistakes during…