Davidsonville Road

Residents who run businesses out of their homes along Defense Highway in Crofton haven't persuaded the Crofton small area planning committee to recommend the commercial zoning they want. They'll have another chance to plead their case tonight at a public hearing on the final draft of the small-area plan covering the area bound by the Little Patuxent River, Route 3, U.S. 50 and the North River. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. at Crofton Woods Elementary School, and residents can sign up at 5: 30 p.m. to speak before the panel.

Three Anne Arundel County teens traveling the wrong way toward oncoming traffic were killed early Saturday in a head-on collision that also killed the second driver on state Route 50 near Davidsonville Road, Maryland State Police said. Breanna Marie Franco, 18, Brittany Ann Walker, 19, and Zachary Tyler Rose, 18, were in a vehicle traveling west in an eastbound lane of Route 50 that struck a second vehicle head on before 3:30 a.m., troopers said. The vehicle operated by the teens briefly caught fire.

Anne Arundel County Police are investigating a collision in Crofton that killed a 91-year-old Columbia woman Monday afternoon. According to preliminary information, Frank Elmer Boyd, 94, attempted to make a left turn from northbound Davidsonville Road onto Farrell Street in a Buick Riviera at about 4:15 p.m. The sedan traveled into the path of a 2003 Dodge Ram traveling southbound on Davidsonville Road. The truck struck the sedan on the passenger side, injuring Dorothy Amelia Boyd of Vantage Point Road.

A Glen Burnie man died of injuries he suffered Sunday when his car collided with an SUV driven by an unsupervised teenager on a learner's permit, Anne Arundel County police said. Javaid Firdaus, 63, of the 300 block of Thelma Ave., was taken to Baltimore Washington Medical Center, where he died, police said. This was the 19 t h fatal crash in the county this year. Police said the driver of the SUV, Elizabeth Ramirez, 19, of the 600 block of Wheat Mill Court East, Millersville, had a learner's permit, and that her passenger, also 19, was not old enough to supervise her. County police also said she took a relative's vehicle without permission.

County police arrested a Gaithersburg man Friday on charges of breaking into a house in Gambrills and a nearby fire station.Mutema Shadrack Nyankale, 19, of the first block of Gaslight Court was charged with two counts of burglary.Loyal E.Thompson, 66, told police that a man walked into his house in the 2300 block of Davidsonville Road about 6 a.m. When Thompson confronted him in the living room, the man demanded the keys to a car parked in the driveway. Thompson told the man to leave, and he ran away, police said.

An Odenton girl died Saturday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center from injuries she suffered Friday when she was struck by a car as she crossed Davidsonville Road in Crofton, county police said yesterday.Jennifer Lynne McCormick, 15, of the 1200 block of Hillcrest Road was pronounced dead shortly before 5 a.m. She suffered massive head injuries and a fractured right arm when she was hit by a 1993 Ford Tempo shortly after 6:30 p.m. Friday, police said.The girl was trying to cross Davidsonville Road near Jeffrey Drive when the car, driven by 46-year-old Fay Elizabeth Butcher of Madison, Va., struck her.Jennifer was running from the north side of Davidsonville Road.

Two Crofton women died in a single-car accident early Sunday in Gambrills after the car they were in spun out of control and hit several trees, Anne Arundel County police said yesterday. The crash was reported about 1:15 a.m. on Davidsonville Road, north of Bottner Road, police said. Rebecca Lynn Moore, 23, was driving her 2007 Hyundai Accent, with Keira Gwenise Mosaid, 19, in the passenger seat. They were traveling south on Davidsonville Road when the car drifted to the right and struck a curb, police said.

County police have arrested four Pasadena youths in the past two days on charges of leaving bomb threats at their schools.Two George Fox Middle School students were arrested yesterday after they confessed to leaving a note about a bomb in a boys' bathroom, police said. The note was found shortly before 9 a.m.The Queens Park girls, ages 13 and 14, were charged in juvenile citations with falsely reporting a bomb.Their arrests came one day after a 16-year-old boy from Green Haven and a 17-year-old boy from Pine Grove were charged with the same offense after a similar note was found in a boys' bathroom at Northeast High School on Duvall Highway.

Crofton officials are worried that a developer building 258 town houses won't finish widening a road and extending a sidewalk on time, leaving part of Davidsonville Road as an eyesore and still under construction.Town Manager Jordan Harding said last week that he doesn't understand the delays."It's been dug up for a long time," he said. "Stop and start, stop and start. Why is it taking them so long to finish?"Mr. Harding, who said numerous residents have complained, met with the developer and state and county officials on Thursday.

Crofton roadwork will begin in July The State Highway Administration will begin early next month a $1.1 million project to resurface and make safety improvements along Route 424 between Route 450 and Route 3 in Crofton. The state will also install an ADA-compliant sidewalk along Davidsonville Road for the length of the project and replace concrete curbs and gutters. Approximately 20,000 vehicles per day travel along Davidsonville Road between Defense Highway and Crain Highway. Motorists should expect lane closures along Davidsonville Road between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays.

A 19-year-old Silver Spring man was killed Monday when he leaned out of a truck traveling on a Davidsonville road to motion to friends walking in an adjacent field and the vehicle sideswiped a telephone pole, according to Anne Arundel County police. Officers were called about 5:40 p.m. Monday to Governor Bridge Road near Patuxent River Road and found David Shigeru Yamamoto Hepner of the 900 block of Devere Drive suffering from life-threatening injuries. Investigators said Hepner was the right rear passenger in a 2004 Chevy truck traveling east on Governor Bridge Road and driven by Zachary Taylor Bennett, 18, of the 3900 block of Bayside Drive in Edgewater.

Anne Arundel County Police are investigating a collision in Crofton that killed a 91-year-old Columbia woman Monday afternoon. According to preliminary information, Frank Elmer Boyd, 94, attempted to make a left turn from northbound Davidsonville Road onto Farrell Street in a Buick Riviera at about 4:15 p.m. The sedan traveled into the path of a 2003 Dodge Ram traveling southbound on Davidsonville Road. The truck struck the sedan on the passenger side, injuring Dorothy Amelia Boyd of Vantage Point Road.

Two Crofton women died in a single-car accident early Sunday in Gambrills after the car they were in spun out of control and hit several trees, Anne Arundel County police said yesterday. The crash was reported about 1:15 a.m. on Davidsonville Road, north of Bottner Road, police said. Rebecca Lynn Moore, 23, was driving her 2007 Hyundai Accent, with Keira Gwenise Mosaid, 19, in the passenger seat. They were traveling south on Davidsonville Road when the car drifted to the right and struck a curb, police said.

Crofton roadwork will begin in July The State Highway Administration will begin early next month a $1.1 million project to resurface and make safety improvements along Route 424 between Route 450 and Route 3 in Crofton. The state will also install an ADA-compliant sidewalk along Davidsonville Road for the length of the project and replace concrete curbs and gutters. Approximately 20,000 vehicles per day travel along Davidsonville Road between Defense Highway and Crain Highway. Motorists should expect lane closures along Davidsonville Road between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays.

An elderly woman and her daughter were in critical condition last night after a dump truck lost control on a rain-slick road in Davidsonville and struck their Chevrolet Caprice head-on, Anne Arundel County police said. The two were among four people sent to area hospitals after the 7:30 a.m. accident, which shut down Davidsonville Road for more than two hours. The Caprice driver, Linda Lea Suit, 62, of Harwood, was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where she was being treated for fractures, police said.

Koch Homes has sold 27 single-family homes in its eventual, 67-home development of Crofton Colony in Anne Arundel County. The community is designed for those ages 55 and older who want an active lifestyle. Crofton Colony offers ranch styling. The dimensions are particularly deep for this type of house, the builder says -- 40 feet wide by 60 feet deep. Options include a finished basement, kitchen upgrades, floor upgrades and decks. Prices for the houses range from $347,900 to $372,900.

An architect last night told the Crofton Civic Association board that the athletic field they are considering as a site for a new Town Hall won't work because the state is unlikely to approve a new entrance on Davidsonville Road.Jon Grant, a Crofton resident advising the Civic Association's ADA committee, said it would be difficult to persuade the State Highway Administration to permit an entrance off Davidsonville Road for the proposed Town Hall at Albert O. Hardy Field because it already has heavy traffic.

A county police officer's patience and quick thinking paid off yesterday when he nabbed a suspect in the robbery of a Deale savings and loan shortly after the holdup.About 10:30 a.m., Officer Stephen M. Torbeck of the Western District heard a lookout for a bank robber broadcast over his police radio. The robber, described as a white man driving a dark red Pontiac Firebird, had just made off with $100 from the Maryland Federal Savings and Loan in the 5800 block of Deale-Churchton Road and was last seen heading north on Davidsonville Road, toward Officer Torbeck's patrol area.

Residents who run businesses out of their homes along Defense Highway in Crofton haven't persuaded the Crofton small area planning committee to recommend the commercial zoning they want. They'll have another chance to plead their case tonight at a public hearing on the final draft of the small-area plan covering the area bound by the Little Patuxent River, Route 3, U.S. 50 and the North River. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. at Crofton Woods Elementary School, and residents can sign up at 5: 30 p.m. to speak before the panel.

Crofton would gain a main street, more schools and an overpass over Route 3 if recommendations made by a Small Area Planning Committee pass public inspection and are drafted into the county's general development plan.Residents have the opportunity to look over the draft plan recommendations -- a blueprint for the future of the area -- and to write comments between 4: 30 p.m. and 8 p.m. today at a public forum at Crofton Middle School. The comments will guide revisions to the plan before it is sent to the County Planning Advisory Board for review and eventually to the County Council.