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…
In the Washington D.C. area, area police agencies and transit officials have launched a major campaign focused on reducing the amount of injuries and deaths among cyclists and pedestrians. The campaign was launched on March 20, 2007 in Thomas Circle by officials from suburban Maryland, the District, and northern Virginia.…
Roger Scofield, Jr., the man involved in a March 19 accident in Prince George’s County that injured two people and killed one man apparently had traffic citations in Virginia, Maryland, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Delaware. Citations included speeding, inattentive driving, careless driving, driving on a suspended…
Anne Arundel County Police say that a man told his pit bull to attack a teenage boy on the night of March 16th. The boy and his friend were sitting in a parked car on Farrara Drive in Gambrills, Maryland when the man drove up in his Silver Ford Taurus…
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…
Victor Z. Kolako, the Metro bus driver who has been charged with two counts of negligent homicide for the death of two pedestrians in downtown Washington D.C. on Valentine’s Day, has been fired by Metro. Kolako had struck Sally Dean McGee, 54, and Martha Stringer Schoenborn, 59, at Seventh Street…
Police are investigating an accident in Felton, Delaware, involving a pickup truck and a motorcycle that left Maryland resident and motorcycle rider, John Bishop, 55, in critical condition on Tuesday. Police say that Bishop was riding behind the pickup truck, driven by Charles Muldrow, 57, when, at the intersection of…
According to Maryland State Police, a worker in Pittsville, Maryland was injured last week after he fell to the ground from a conveyer belt that was 8.5 feet up in the air. The worker, Stanford McKenzie, 53, is an employee of Maryland Coastal Supply Company. McKenzie was taken to Peninsula…
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…