Accident

A one-car accident in Howard County Saturday has left a man dead, police said. Daniel William Nuzback, 47, was driving a Jeep CJ7 on Gaither Road in Howard County when he veered off the right side of the road and struck a tree, according to Howard County police. The accident occurred at about 4:30 p.m. Nuzback, of Gaither Manor Road in Sykesville, was declared dead at the scene, police said. The accident is under investigation.

A crash on the eastbound William Preston Lane Memorial Bridge blocked traffic this morning, WBAL radio reports,. A Medevac helicopter landed to facilitate a hospital trip, the station reported. The bridge is now open.

Baltimore police have identified a woman who was killed in a motorcycle crash on Interstate 83 on Sunday evening. Sheryl Anne Robinson, 40, lost control of her motorcycle south of Penn Station and hit the right wall of the roadway at about 5:35 p.m., a police spokesman said Sunday night. The roadway was closed from Fayette Street to Penn Station for about four hours during the accident investigation, he said.

A Baltimore County woman was killed in a motorcycle accident while traveling in Bermuda, according to law enforcement officials there. Bethany Heinrichs, 33, of Halethorpe was riding a rented motorcycle about 1:50 p.m. Tuesday when she hit a curb on Penders Road in Sandys Parish, according to the Bermuda Police Service. Heinrichs was taken to King Edward Medical Center with chest and abdominal injuries, and was pronounced dead at 8:45 that night. - Liz Kay

I believe it was Samuel Johnson who said that puns are the lowest form of humor. The Sun seems to relish puns. The headline concerning the death of two girls when a train derailed in Ellicott City ("Derailed lives," Aug. 22) was the most tasteless pun yet. Shame on you! Betty Hoatson, Butler

Baltimore County police are seeking the public's help in trying to find the family of a South Baltimore man who was struck and killed by a motorcycle last month. The victim, Joseph Allan McCoy, of the 400 block of South Clinton St., was struck at about 7 p.m. on Nov. 25 as he was crossing the westbound lane of Eastern Boulevard in Essex, police said. Police officers have been unable to notify his next of kin of his death. Police described McCoy, 54, as a white male with gray hair and brown eyes, 5-feet 10-inches tall and weighing 135 pounds.

A 31-year-old woman was killed in Baltimore County on Saturday night after she was struck by a vehicle as she attempted to cross the street, police said. Rebekah Hamman, 31, of the 5500 block of Pilgrim Road, was pronounced dead at Maryland Shock Trauma Center at 9:30 p.m. after she was struck by a vehicle traveling northbound on Bel Air Road, according to Lt. Robert McCullogh, spokesman for the Baltimore County Police Department. A preliminary investigation determined that Hamman was crossing Bel Air Road, just south of Still Meadow Road, when she ran into the path of the vehicle.

The collapse of a soccer goal on a Howard County practice field has led the state's highest court to reconsider more than 150 years of personal injury law, in a case that could significantly improve injured plaintiffs' chances of winning payouts. The case - which began when a crossbar crashed into then-20-year-old Kyle Coleman's face, crushing the bones around his eye - has drawn national attention, as Maryland's unusual legal standard meets its first judicial test in decades. Maryland is one of only four states, plus the District of Columbia, that bar injured people from winning lawsuits if they had any role in an accident - even if a jury finds the defendant in their suit deserved a much greater share of the blame.

An accident on southbound Interstate 83 is causing traffic delays between West Cold Spring Lane and the Union Avenue overpass. The northbound lanes appear to be clear. Three people were taken to the hospital with injuries that were not life threatening, a fire dispatcher said. steve.kilar@baltsun.com twitter.com/stevekilar