Crash

Three people died early Sunday in an Odenton car crash. According to Anne Arundel County Police, officers were called to Piney Orchard Parkway and Riverscape Road at about 12:30 a.m. where a 2005 Subaru had crashed into a tree. The driver, David Michael D'Augustine of Odenton, 22, was dead at the scene, police said, as well as two passengers in the car, Samuel Carl Schindler of Odenton, 22, and Katherine Marie Warrington of Odenton, also 22. A third passenger, identified by police as Michael Lee Phillips of Gambrills, 23, was taken by Medevac to Maryland Shock Trauma in critical condition.

Sara Knutson Cullen was as comfortable in a dress and stiletto heels as she was smoking cigars and flying Black Hawk helicopters in Afghanistan - a driven and level-headed 27-year-old whose dreams stretched far beyond her roots in Carroll County, family and friends said Sunday. Cullen, a captain in the U.S. Army, died along with four other Army members in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan last Monday, the Department of Defense said. She is the first Marylander killed in Afghanistan this year.

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.

(Reuters) - A bus carrying a university women's lacrosse team crashed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, killing the driver and one of the passengers, turnpike and hospital officials said. In addition to the driver, the bus was carrying 23 students and three coaches from Seton Hill University, a Catholic school in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, turnpike spokesman Bill Capone said. Head Coach Kristie Quigley and Assistant Coach Cristen Sanfilippoi, are both from Baltimore, according to the team's website.

Two people were injured in a multiple vehicle accident on I-95 in Joppa Wednesday morning. Around 11 a.m., rescue crews from the Joppa-Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company were alerted to a motor vehicle collision on I-95, between Route 152 (Mountain Road) and Route 24, according to a news release from the fire company. The first rescue crew to arrive, at 11:02 a.m., reported one person was trapped and requested additional assistance. More equipment from the Joppa Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company began arriving shortly thereafter and firefighters stabilized the vehicle while paramedics assessed the patient, according to the release.

I can't wait for my next Sunday newspaper to see a negative response to Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s recent column ("Democrats riding high, but beware a midterm crash," March 10). As I stated in a previous e-mail, like clockwork every Sunday there's a response countering Mr. Ehrlich's previous column. Note that these letters never run in Monday's paper when there's a smaller readership. I guess the philosophy at The Sun is something to the effect of let's give Mr. Ehrlich exposure and an opportunity to give him some publicity but by golly, let's sock it to him with a consistent negative reply.

A 26-year-old Naval Academy graduate from Howard County who realized a long-held dream of becoming a Naval aviator was killed when the jet she was piloting crashed into a field outside Spokane, Wash. Lt. j.g. Valerie Cappelaere Delaney and her two crew members died Monday morning when the EA-6B Prowler crashed during training, the Navy said Tuesday. The incident remains under investigation. Friends and family described Cappelaere Delaney as a focused, athletic and caring young woman whose career was shaped by conversations with her grandfather, a retired Air Force pilot.

Michael D. Eaton ran up a tab for 17 beers plus other drinks before he left a Gaithersburg tavern, according to court records. Forty-five minutes later, behind the wheel of his Range Rover, he slammed into the back of a Jeep Cherokee at a speed estimated as high as 98 mph. Ten-year-old Jazimen Warr had nestled on her sister's shoulder, the two children sleeping in the back of the family's Cherokee on the drive to a relative's home in Bowie....