Delivery Truck

A Severn man died Wednesday of injuries he suffered when his sport utility vehicle slammed into a guardrail and careened into a delivery truck traveling the opposite direction on Route 32 in West Friendship, police said.Matthew Murray, 26, of the 5000 block of Telegraph Road was flown to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where he died about 5 p.m.Murray was driving his Ford Bronco north about 10 a.m. when he used the shoulder to pass another car, police said. He lost control, struck the guardrail and collided with the delivery truck just north of Parliament Place, police said.

A Severn man died Wednesday of injuries he suffered when his sport utility vehicle slammed into a guardrail and careened into a delivery truck traveling the opposite direction on Route 32 in West Friendship, police said.Matthew Murray, 26, of the 5000 block of Telegraph Road was flown to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where he died about 5 p.m.Murray was driving his Ford Bronco north about 10 a.m. when he used the shoulder to pass another car, police said. He lost control, struck the guardrail and collided with the delivery truck just north of Parliament Place, police said.

MIDDLETOWN, Del. -- Two Annapolis residents were killed Monday night when their car crossed the center line on Boyds Corner Road north of here and crashed into a delivery truck, police said.Deron C. Wade was driving a 1996 Nissan Sentra west on Boyds Corner Road about 9: 15 p.m. when he crossed over to the eastbound lane and collided with a 1988 Ford truck, New Castle County police said.Wade, 27, and his passenger, Jomika B. Jenkins, 25, who both suffered severe head injuries, were trapped in the car for more than an hour.

GLEN BURNIE -- A 15-year-old boy died Saturday of injuries he received when he was pinned beneath several steel carts in a delivery truck he was helping his father unload, Anne Arundel County police said yesterday.Police did not release the youth's name.According to police, the father and son had just finished unloading supplies about 4 p.m. at the Checkers Restaurant in the 1400 block of N. Crain Highway when the accident occurred.The teen's father told police that he left the truck for a few minutes and when he returned he found his son beneath the carts.

State police have arrested three men and charged them with stealing 22 cartons of cigarettes from a delivery truck in New Windsor.David W. Shepherd, 24, of Glen Burnie was released Wednesday from Carroll County Detention Center after posting a $2,000 bond.Peter Maminski, 25, of Glen Burnie was released on a $1,500 unsecured bond, and Douglas L. Moore, 34, of Millersville was released on a $2,000 unsecured bond.All face charges of theft over $300 and two counts of conspiring to commit a theft.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A one-of-a-kind, handcrafted machine gun disguised as a briefcase, portable and deadly as a James Bond secret weapon, has been stolen from the back of a delivery truck, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms says.The feds want it back, pronto.ATF spokesman Ed Gleba said the weapon had been lifted from a parked Federal Express truck Tuesday while its driver was making deliveries.Mr. Gleba said the gun was evidence from a federal case that had recently been completed in Salt Lake City and was headed for Washington for examination and cataloging by federal firearms experts.

This is what an inner-city crab shack looks like: A plastic shade tent propped up next to an old delivery truck at the corner of Greenmount Avenue and Chase Street.Looks don't matter, though, to its owner, the Crab Man. He faithfully shows up at 3 p.m. five days a week -- steaming and selling crustaceans with a propane stove and large steel pot that sends the distinct culinary aroma of the state of Maryland wafting through Johnston Square.The locals flock to his corner, commuters drive by and shout dinner orders, and neighborhood children earn pocket change helping him keep the corner clean.

Instead of showing their works at the World Fantasy Convention this weekend in downtown Baltimore, an artist couple found themselves searching alleys and trash bins for the nearly two dozen framed oil paintings of fantasy characters reported stolen from a delivery truck."

Two thousand dollars was stolen from a delivery truck parked in the 800 block of Bestgate Road in Annapolis between 3:40 p.m. and 3:55 p.m. Thursday, county police said.The Pepsi Cola truck was parked in front of the Environmental Protection Agency when the theft occurred, police said. Four money bags were in the truck: three were locked in a steel safe and one was on the floor in the cab of the truck.When the driver returned, he found all four bags gone, and the padlock of the safe open.

County police thought they were arresting a suspect in the attempted theft of cupcakes from a delivery truck in Odenton Saturday morning. But when they searched his rented truck, they said, they found stolen credit cards, gift certificates, a cellular phone and suspected marijuana.The driver of the delivery truck told a Western District officer that he discovered a man in his truck, parked outside a store in the 1600 block of Annapolis Road, trying to steal cakes. The man fled in a rental truck.

A Reisterstown woman was killed Tuesday morning after her car crashed into a delivery truck on Interstate 795 north of Owings Mills Boulevard, closing the northbound roadway for about three hours, according to Maryland State Police. Amy L. Brooking, 21, of the first block of Sebastian Court was pronounced dead at Sinai Hospital, police said. Brooking was driving a 2004 Honda Civic south in the left lane of I-795 about 10:30 a.m., approaching the Owings Mills metro station, when her car crossed the median and struck a box truck, police said.

A wheel fell off a truck being towed Wednesday on the Capital Beltway's outer loop, crossed the median, stuck the grill of a tractor-trailer and ricocheted back across three travel lanes before landing on Channing M. Quinichett's Honda Civic. The wheel landed on the car's roof and front windshield, killing Quinichett, a University of Maryland senior, as she drove to a prenatal massage appointment. "Half a second earlier, she'd be 44 feet ahead; half a second later, she'd be 44 feet behind," said first sgt. Russell Newell of the Maryland State Police.

A collision between a sport utility vehicle and a Utz delivery truck yesterday evening in Finksburg killed a prominent Carroll County orthodontist and injured seven others, including the dentist's six children. State police in Westminster said a GMC Yukon driven by Dr. Kevin Robert Lawyer, 39, of Finksburg and occupied by his six children - ages 5 to 11, including two sets of twins - was southbound on Route 91 (Emory Road) south of Old Gamber Road in Finksburg shortly after 4:30 p.m. when the driver crossed the center dividing line and crashed head-on into a northbound Utz Potato Co. delivery truck.

ATLANTA - Buttoned-down UPS is handing video gamers the keys to its boxy brown delivery trucks. In return, it expects excessive speeds, dent-free driving and a whole lot of brand awareness. The delivery giant paid to have a depiction of a UPS delivery truck embedded in the latest edition of a popular racing video game for Xbox and PlayStation2 console systems. The game, NASCAR 06: Total Team Control, is expected to be on store shelves nationwide by today. Price not disclosed UPS wouldn't disclose the price for the product placement, but spokeswoman Susan Rosenberg said the cost exceeds what UPS shells out for a single airing of a national television spot.

A Lansdowne man and his stepbrother have been arrested and charged with hijacking a delivery truck from a Parkville convenience store this week, Baltimore County police said yesterday. Patrick Percy Johnson Jr., 28, of the 3000 block of Janice Ave. in Lansdowne and Tobias Preston, 21, of the 800 block of Whitelock St. in Baltimore were charged early yesterday with kidnapping, armed robbery, a handgun violation and grand theft in the Wednesday morning abduction of a driver for Triple C Wholesalers, said Officer Shawn Vinson, a county police spokesman.

WOODWORKING projects can be fun, even when a complex project is duplicated 90 times. Steve Shepler, instructor of manufacturing and construction at North Carroll High School, felt his students would enjoy the challenge of mass-producing detailed wooden model trucks. In the past two years, Shep- ler's advanced wood manufacturing students have handcrafted a model truck that serves as a toy bank. Past models look like the delivery trucks of local companies TBM Hardware and D&M Transmissions, which have donated to the project to offset costs.

A Severn man died Wednesday of injuries he suffered when his sport utility vehicle slammed into a guardrail and careened into a delivery truck traveling the opposite direction on Route 32 in West Friendship, police said.Matthew Murray, 26, of the 5000 block of Telegraph Road was flown to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where he died about 5 p.m.Murray was driving his Ford Bronco north about 10 a.m. when he used the shoulder to pass another car, police said. He lost control, struck the guardrail and collided with the delivery truck just north of Parliament Place, police said.

A Severn man died Wednesday of injuries he suffered when his sport utility vehicle slammed into a guardrail and careened into a delivery truck traveling the opposite direction on Route 32 in West Friendship, police said.Matthew Murray, 26, of the 5000 block of Telegraph Road was flown to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where he died about 5 p.m.Murray was driving his Ford Bronco north about 10 a.m. when he used the shoulder to pass another car, police said. He lost control, struck the guardrail and collided with the delivery truck just north of Parliament Place, police said.

MIDDLETOWN, Del. -- Two Annapolis residents were killed Monday night when their car crossed the center line on Boyds Corner Road north of here and crashed into a delivery truck, police said.Deron C. Wade was driving a 1996 Nissan Sentra west on Boyds Corner Road about 9: 15 p.m. when he crossed over to the eastbound lane and collided with a 1988 Ford truck, New Castle County police said.Wade, 27, and his passenger, Jomika B. Jenkins, 25, who both suffered severe head injuries, were trapped in the car for more than an hour.

State police have arrested three men and charged them with stealing 22 cartons of cigarettes from a delivery truck in New Windsor.David W. Shepherd, 24, of Glen Burnie was released Wednesday from Carroll County Detention Center after posting a $2,000 bond.Peter Maminski, 25, of Glen Burnie was released on a $1,500 unsecured bond, and Douglas L. Moore, 34, of Millersville was released on a $2,000 unsecured bond.All face charges of theft over $300 and two counts of conspiring to commit a theft.