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A Towson, Maryland district court judge has reduced the bail of the woman charged in the hit-and-run dragging death of three-year-old Elijah Cozart in Baltimore County to $250,000. Cozart’s grandmother had been pushing him in a stroller across Goucher Boulevard when a 1999 Dodge Ram pickup truck, driven by Lazara Arellano de Hogue, struck Cozart, and his grandmother, Marjorie Thomas, 55 as they were crossing the street. The pickup truck continued down the road, dragging the boy underneath it for nearly 3/4ths of a mile before he tumbled free. He was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Thomas is still in the hospital.

Arellano de Hogue, who was arrested on Castle Drive at a home that she shares with her boyfriend, was held at the Baltimore County Detention Center on $2 million bail over the weekend. She claims that she didn’t know she had hit the toddler—only the grandmother, whom she claims she had swerved to avoid.

According to police, however, Arellano de Hogue was seen getting out of the vehicle, pulling the stroller out from under the pickup truck, and driving away.

USA Safekids.org says that:

· In 2002, 599 children ages 14 and under died from pedestrian injuries.

· Of these, 460 died in motor vehicle-related traffic crashes.

· In 2003, nearly 38,400 children ages 14 and under were treated in hospital emergency rooms for pedestrian-related injuries.

· In 2002, 599 children ages 14 and under died from pedestrian injuries.

· Of these, 460 died in motor vehicle-related traffic crashes.

· In 2003, nearly 38,400 children ages 14 and under were treated in hospital emergency rooms for pedestrian-related injuries.

· Children ages 14 and under are more likely to suffer pedestrian injuries in areas with high traffic volume, a higher number of parked vehicles on the street, higher posted speed limits, no divided highways, few pedestrian-control devices, and few alternative play areas.

· Child pedestrian injuries occur more often in residential areas and on local roads that are straight, paved, and dry.

· Children ages 4 and under are at the greatest risk from child pedestrian death.

· In 2002, children ages 4 and under accounted for more than 40 percent of pedestrian injury-related deaths.

· Nearly 10 percent of all child pedestrian-related injuries occur in driveways.

· Children ages 4 and under account for 80 percent of these driveway-related pedestrian injuries.

· Toddlers (ages 1 to 2) sustain the highest number of pedestrian injuries.

· More than half of all toddler pedestrian injuries occur when a vehicle is backing up.

· Children from birth to age 2 are also more likely to suffer pedestrian injuries in parking lots and on sidewalks.

· Nearly two-thirds of child pedestrian deaths are among males.

· African-American children have a pedestrian injury death rate almost twice that of white children.

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In Anne Arundel County’s Maryland City, a white pickup truck hit a pedestrian at the corner of Brock Ridge Road and Route 198 on the night of Monday, October 30 and fled the scene soon after. The victim was taken to The University of Maryland R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.

According to a USA Today analysis, the number of pedestrians killed in hit-and-run accidents since 2005 is now 20% greater.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that in 2005, 974 out of 4881 pedestrians who were killed died in hit-and-run accidents.

County police in Maryland say that there have now been two pedestrian fatalities as a result of the October 6 accident in Perry Hall where, that night, a Dodge van hit two pedestrians who were crossing the 9600 block of Belair Road.

One of the pedestrians, Anne Silk, 69, died at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center that night. The other pedestrian, Anne Dauria, 77, died a few days later. Police are investigating the cause of the accident. The driver of the van was not hurt.

The CDC says that in 1999:

Yesterday, A 7-year-old child was hit by a motor vehicle after she ran onto the 2900 block of Stanton Road. According to police, the child is being treated for bruises and scrapes. This is the second child pedestrian-related accident on a D.C. street in the last few days.Just five days ago, 4-year-old girl was killed by a truck.

In 2005, According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA):

· 64, 000 pedestrians were injured.

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 woman were hit by a delivery truck. Andrew Caldwell, the driver of the pizza delivery truck ,who was employed by Domino’s Pizza at the time, is named as one of the defendants in the lawsuit. Houck is seeking $1 million in damages from Caldwell for allegedly negligent driving. Houck is also asking the pizza delivery company for $1 million. In addition, Houck is suing the state of Maryland, The State Highway Administration (SHA), and the Department of Transportation for $1 million because of the allegedly faulty design of a median located in an area of the highway where it is allegedly not safe for pedestrians to cross the road.

The State Highway Administration (SHA) offers the following Pedestrian Statistics from 2003:

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 police say the accident took place on the morning of Friday, September 1, when Sebastian Vasquez, the driver of the van, lost control of his vehicle and hit a curb, a fire hydrant, and the middle school students.

The students were taken to Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park and Children’s Hospital in Washington D.C. Police are still investigating the cause of the accident, and it is not known whether Vasquez will be charged with committing any crime.

Statistics by the United States Department of Transportation and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration say that in 2002, over 4800 pedestrians were killed and over 70,000 others were injured in vehicle-related accidents.

On June 6 in Ocean City, Maryland, a female woman in her 20’s suffered head injuries after being hit by a car filled with River Hill, Pennsylvania high school graduates. The pedestrian had failed to use a crosswalk.

In Hagerstown, Maryland, police are blaming an 18-year-old teenager for two hit-and-run incidents that took place on June 3. According to police reports, William Guy IV was driving a Ford Bronco in the wrong direction on I-81 South when he hit a pickup truck and later hit a pedestrian. Guy is said to have left both accident scenes. Police finally apprehended him after his Bronco crashed into a road sign. The pedestrian and two other victims were treated and later released at Washington County Hospital.

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