Accident

Collisions closed lanes along I-95 south and the outer loop during Thursday's commute. A four-car collision closed one southbound lane and the left shoulder of I-95 before White Marsh Boulevard at exit 67. The accident had cleared as of 8:25 a.m., according to the State Highway Administration. A three-vehicle collision also shut down a southbound lane and the left shoulder of I-95 near MD 32 in Howard County. Both had reopened as of 8:10 a.m. Earlier, a three-vehicle collision briefly shut down two lanes and the shoulder of the outer loop at Edmondson Avenue, according to the State Highway Administration.

Among the 67 calls for medical and fire-rescue service the Arbutus Volunteer Fire Department received during the period March 31-April 7 were the following: Washington Boulevard, 4500 block, 2:41 p.m. April 5. Crews from the Arbutus volunteer station and Halethorpe career station responded to the report of a motor vehicle accident involving a motorcycle in Halethorpe. One seriously injured person taken to University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Linden Avenue at Shelbourne Road, 5:23 p.m. April 4. Crews from the Arbutus, English Consul and Woodlawn volunteer stations responded to the report of motor vehicle accident with possible injuries in Arbutus and found property damage, but no injuries.

A La Plata man was killed early Saturday when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a truck on Route 100 near the Baltimore Washington Parkway. Anne Arundel County police said that James Garrett Henderson, 27, was traveling at a high speed when his 2005 Harley Davidson motorcycle abruptly switched lanes on westbound Route 100 and stuck the back of an Isuzu box truck. Henderson was taken to University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, but he later died of his injuries.

A Baltimore man was killed in a bizarre accident Thursday afternoon as he was driving in Owings Mills when another driver struck a deer and the deer flew through his windshield, Baltimore County police said. Police identified the man as Daniel Mark Fisher, 56, of the Cheswolde neighborhood. A woman was driving southbound on Garrison Forest Road near Rosewood Lane about 2:40 p.m. when a deer suddenly ran in front of her sport utility vehicle, police said. The woman's SUV hit the deer and sent it flying into the air and into the windshield of Fisher's Honda Civic, killing him and the deer.

Shirtless, hair flowing, legs pumping, Dr. Theodore Houk is a familiar sight running along North Charles Street on his twice-daily, 5.5-mile trek between his Lutherville home and his job at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. "You always see him out there," said Kathleen Wrona, who has seen Houk, an internal medicine specialist, often during her commute. On Thursday, she saw him again, witnessing as the vehicle in front of her struck Houk, critically injuring him and sending him to Maryland Shock Trauma Center via helicopter.

Accidents were bogging down the Thursday morning commute in the city and in Baltimore County, police said. In the city, northbound traffic on Martin Luther King Boulevard was being detoured onto West Fayette Street after an accident between Fayette and Saratoga streets, and police were calling the traffic impact "severe. " Drivers were also being asked to steer clear of North Charles Street near Chestnut Avenue in Baltimore County, where a pedestrian was reported struck by a car Thursday morning, police said.

An accident involving at least two vehicles closed West Nursery Road in both directions Thursday morning and caused injuries, according to Anne Arundel County Police. Officers were dispatched to the intersection of West Nursery and Winterson roads about 7:04 a.m. and found two or three vehicles had been involved in a collision, a police dispatcher said. The intersection is just south of Interstate 295 in the Linthicum Heights area north of Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

He was the teenager who wasn't embarrassed to hug his mom at Severna Park High School while other students looked on, who pitched on the Falcons' 2009 state championship baseball team, and who matured into a Marine with a swallow tattoo on his right arm. Marine Lance Cpl. William Taylor Wild IV - best known as Taylor - died Monday in a military training exercise at Hawthorne Army Depot, Nevada, according to his parents. He was 21. As of Wednesday evening, the Department of Defense had not formally identified the seven Marines who died when a mortar round detonated in its launching tube during a training exercise.

A 20-year-old man was taken to a local hospital in grave condition Tuesday evening after an incident at Pier One on Old Philadelphia Road in Aberdeen, Harford County fire officials said. It was unclear how the incident occurred, but it was originally reported as an accident involving a piece of machinery, according to Rich Gardiner, spokesman for the Harford County Volunteer Fire and EMS Association. The accident may have been secondary, however, he said. Gardiner did not have additional information available around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

A college lacrosse coach from Baltimore County died after the team's bus crashed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, also killing the driver and injuring 20 others Saturday morning, authorities said. Kristina Quigley, 30, the head coach for the Seton Hill University women's lacrosse team, died in the crash near Carlisle, Pa. Quigley, now of Greensburg, Pa., was six months pregnant. She died after being flown by helicopter to Penn State Hershey Medical Center, said turnpike spokesman Bill Capone.