Man, 22, dies of injuries from Howard crash
A 22-year-old Columbia man died yesterday, one day after he was thrown from the passenger's seat of a Ford pickup truck that hit a tree in a single-vehicle accident in which the driver fled the scene. Howard County police said Roger Gene Bartug of the 6100 block of Turnabout Lane was taken by ambulance to Maryland Shock Trauma Center early Saturday and was pronounced dead shortly after noon yesterday. Bartug was not wearing a seat belt when he was thrown from the Ford Ranger, according to police. Alexander Randolph Camorali, the driver of the truck, fled the scene after the accident, police said; he was arrested several hours later. Camorali, 23, of the 5400 block of Half Flight Garth in Columbia, will likely face hit-and-run charges, police said. The crash occurred at 2:24 a.m. Saturday at the intersection of Harper's Farm Road and Twin Rivers Road.
Brent Jones
Amtrak train kills person walking along tracks
A person walking along railroad tracks in Middle River was struck and killed early yesterday by an Amtrak train traveling from Boston to Washington, authorities said. Northeast Regional Train No. 169 fatally struck the person - whose name and gender were not available - just after 2:30 a.m. about 10 miles northeast of Baltimore's Penn Station, according to Karina Romero, an Amtrak spokeswoman. She said that none of the 83 passengers or crew aboard the train was injured in the incident. Amtrak will work with Baltimore County police and the state medical examiner's office in the investigation. The victim was trespassing on railroad property, Romero said. The Northeast Regional trains travel at speeds up to 125 mph, she said. Part of the investigation will be to determine how fast the train was traveling when it struck the victim, she said. The train was allowed to continue to Washington at 5:19 a.m., Romero said.
Gus G. Sentementes
Balto. Co. police identify pedestrian killed Saturday
The man struck and killed by a car Saturday night several blocks from his Middle River home has been identified as John Walter Hartwick Jr., 39, of the 300 block of Shagbark Road, Baltimore County police said. Police said Hartwick was walking south in the 2200 block of Eastern Blvd. near Volz Avenue about 7 p.m. when he was struck by an eastbound Jeep Liberty driven by a 60-year-old Chase woman. Police said Hartwick sustained multiple injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later. The woman, whose name was not released, was not injured, police said. The county's crash team is investigating the accident, police said.
