There have been reports of a recent rise in pedestrian deaths in the Washington D.C. area. While 17 pedestrians were killed on D.C. roads during all of 2006, four pedestrians were killed within one week alone in early February. By February 12, five pedestrians fatalities in D.C. had already been…
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…
The AAA recently released driving suggestions for teen drivers who may not be used to driving in snow conditions. Here are some of the tips: · Supervise your teen driver while he or she practices driving in snow or ice; let your teenager practice steering and hard breaking in skidding…
Five light rail train passengers and the train’s driver were hospitalized last week, after a tractor-trailer and the train collided with one another in Hunt Valley. The train was derailed in the accident, and service throughout the area was disrupted. The truck driver, Marshall F. Hartsell, 65, was headed southbound…
Gary Lee Dicks, a Virginia truck driver, was acquitted by a Howard County District Court judge for traffic citations he had received in connection with a tragic accident involving a non-working traffic light that led to the deaths of two Howard County teenagers in January 2006. Scott Kaplan, a 19-year-old…
Federal officials in the U.S. say that bus drivers who use cell phones while driving may be partially to blame for the 17,000 school children that sustain injuries from school bus accidents each year. In an undercover news report by ABC News and Good Morning America, the reporting team got…
A series of DC Metro subway accidents in the past year, including a subway derailment in downtown D.C. in early January that put 20 people in the hospital and left 60 people stranded in a tunnel, is causing federal safety officials to examine the country’s second busiest urban rail system.…
The family of a 38-year-old woman killed in a deadly four-car freeway accident last month is suing singer-actress Brandy for $50 million. The wrongful death suit was filed yesterday in Los Angeles Superior Court by the parents of car accident victim Awatef Aboudihaj, one day after the California Highway Patrol…
Howard County Police Chief William J. McMahon wants the County Council to repeal a law banning the use of stun guns because he wants to equip several of his officers with Tasers. The handheld stun gun incapacitates a person for five seconds by shooting probes into that person’s skin. Several…