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By Hanah Cho | October 25, 2009
Baltimore police arrested a Sykesville man Saturday in the hit-and-run death of a Johns Hopkins University student eight days ago. Thomas Meighan, 39, of Sykesville was picked up between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m., said Detective Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman. The charges were not released. After police sought the owner of a pickup truck involved in the accident, Meighan turned himself in on Tuesday and was released as detectives continued to investigate the death of Miriam Frankl, 20, who was hit Oct. 16 in the 3500 block of St. Paul St. at University Parkway.
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By Nick Madigan | September 3, 2009
Standing before a judge and facing 60 days in jail, Baltimore County Councilman Stephen G. Samuel Moxley admitted publicly for the first time Wednesday that he is an alcoholic and needs help. Moxley was accused of being drunk shortly before midnight July 23 when he caused a four-car pileup in West Baltimore that injured 44-year-old Justine Matthews. A police officer described him as "stumbling," "swaying" and smelling of alcohol when he emerged from his badly damaged Toyota Highlander.
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By Don Markus | June 30, 2009
A 24-year-old Columbia man with a history of reckless driving and drug convictions was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for his part in a fatal accident last November that killed his best friend. Alexander Camorali of the 5400 block of Half Flight Garth pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide while under the influence of alcohol after initially being charged with vehicular manslaughter. After spending part of the night at a Baltimore go-go bar, Camorali was driving on Harpers Farm Road when his truck went out of control, smashed into a tree and knocked down a street light.
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By Doug Donovan | October 21, 2007
Three people died in two car accidents that occurred about the same time yesterday in Baltimore County, authorities said. The first accident occurred on Interstate 695 near the Cove Road exit when a 1992 Lexus traveling north on the highway went out of control, crossed the median and struck a southbound Toyota, state police said. The driver of the Lexus, the car's only occupant, died on impact, police said. A passenger in the rear seat of the Toyota, one of that car's three occupants, died after being taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, police said.
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By Dan Thang Dang | June 12, 2007
Charlie Lusco, you are not alone. And boy, oh boy, is that really depressing. Several incensed readers wrote of their own alarming stories about bad drivers who don't play by the insurance rules and bad insurers who let them get away with it, after I shared Lusco's infuriating ordeal in this column last week. To recap, Lusco and his wife were rear-ended by an 18-year- old driver in December. Lusco immediately reported the accident to his insurance company, Geico, but the young driver did not inform his own insurer.
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By New York Times News Service | April 30, 2007
OAKLAND, Calif. -- A fiery pre-dawn tanker truck accident caused the collapse of a heavily trafficked freeway overpass near downtown yesterday, sending hundreds of feet of concrete crashing onto a highway below and hobbling a vital Bay Area interchange. The driver of the truck, which was carrying 8,600 gallons of gasoline, was hospitalized with second-degree burns. No other injuries were reported from the accident, which occurred at 3:42 a.m. But even as the fire smoldered, transit officials said the accident could complicate the lives of commuters for months.
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By MELISSA HARRIS | May 21, 2006
A Mount Hebron High School senior jumped from a moving car on Route 99 shortly after 9 p.m. Thursday night, ran across the road and was struck by a sport utility vehicle driven by a fellow senior, according to Howard County police. Jamila Haley Palmer, 18, was flown to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore and later released. An e-mail sent to Mount Hebron parents Friday said that Palmer suffered minor scratches on her head and back and is home resting. The driver of a 2003 Toyota Highlander, Ashley Danielle Lohmeyer of Ellicott City, suffered no injuries.
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By Laura Barnhardt | January 8, 2005
The Tennessee trucker who barreled into cars at the Fort McHenry Tunnel tollbooth, killing three people last spring, has been charged with three counts of vehicular manslaughter, the Baltimore state's attorney's office said yesterday. A grand jury returned an indictment Thursday charging John William Castro, 53, of Clarksville, Tenn., with causing the May 11 accident that killed a Virginia couple and a Harford County man, authorities said. Castro was fatigued, speeding and driving his 18-wheel tractor-trailer without his glasses, according to a Maryland Transportation Authority Police investigative report.
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BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | November 24, 2004
The Thanksgiving holiday travel nightmare seemed to begin in earnest last night when a multiple-vehicle accident on northbound Interstate 95 at Mountain Road in Harford County triggered 11 other collisions and a 13-mile backup that stretched from Baltimore to Joppa. Five vehicles were involved in the initial crash, which occurred about 6 p.m., said state police Cpl. Britt Moore. The cause of the accident, which resulted in minor injuries, was under investigation. Eleven additional collisions were reported in the northbound lanes within the two hours after the initial pileup, Moore said, and additional minor injuries were reported.
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By Heather Dewar | January 15, 2004
A single chunk of metal with a number stamped into it. A car door dented in the shape of a tractor-trailer's massive tire. A few ounces of human blood. These fragments survived the 2,000-degree gasoline fire after Tuesday's deadly tanker accident on Interstate 95. To the untrained eye, the relics of four people's deaths seem tragically sparse and meaningless. But to accident experts, they unlock a treasure chest of other information: driver's licenses and medical charts, cargo manifests and repair records, logbooks and even credit-card receipts.