An Ocean City pedestrian has filed a personal injury lawsuit against the pizza delivery driver who was operating the truck that hit him, the pizza delivery company, and the state of Maryland. In 2003, Kevin Houck was crossing the Coastal Highway with friends near 93rd street when Houck and a…
Maryland women are among the 500 claimants who have filed personal injury lawsuits related to injuries and deaths that were caused by using the Ortho Evra birth control patch. According to legal analysts, however, thousands of women around the world have suffered heart attacks, strokes, and blood clots as a…
The National Transportation Safety Board is reporting that there was an increase in transportation-related fatalities in 2005. According to preliminary figures released by the NTSB this week, from 2004-2005: · Deaths from transportation-related accidents went up from 45,092 to 45,636. · Highway transportation-related fatalities rose from 42,836 to 43,443. ·…
Over 100,000 attended the Sixth Annual Delmarva Biker week that took place from September 14-17. The number of attendees from last year was slightly down due to bad weather. The following motorcycle accidents took place over the weekend in Ocean City: · Jason Bowen, 24, of Harrington suffered serious injuries…
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police say that a 16-year-old Elkton boy was critically injured last week after the tube that he was being towed in hit the floating pier at 55 Knollwood Road on the Elk River. Susan Archibald was operating the personal watercraft (PWC) that was towing the…
Last Thursday, hundreds of Maryland motorcycle riders paid tribute to fellow cyclist Marty Schultz who died in a motorcycle accident on August 30. Schultz was the director A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments (ABATE) of Maryland, the largest organization in the state that advocates motorcyclists’ rights. ABATE of Maryland believes that…
Officer Robert T. Krauss, the Maryland Transportation Authority Police motorcycle officer who was injured when he was hit by a van in Baltimore while escorting a funeral possession on December 21, 2005, was given a hero’s burial last week after he passed away on September 1. Krauss had been undergoing…
A few of the 10 school children who were injured after being hit by a white Ford van while waiting for their school bus at a bus stop in front of Forest Park Apartments on Piney Branch Road in Silver Spring are still being treated for their injuries. Montgomery County…
A 9-year-old boy and his mother have filed personal injury lawsuits against the Yellowbird Bus Company and the Cowan Truck Company after the school bus he was riding in collided with a tractor-trailer on I-95 in Aberdeen, Maryland on July 5. The bus had been returning from a field trip…
In Maryland yesterday, diving teams recovered the body of a man who had been killed while participating in a boat race on September 3. Maryland Natural Resources Police say Paul Henry Sohn had been racing his boat the Jumpin’ Jack Flash in the yearly Ragin’ On the River Powerboat Race…