Dump Truck

A Hampstead mother and three children were injured yesterday when their Dodge van collided with a dump truck on Route 482 northeast of Westminster, state police said. Tammy Sue Collins, 32, was airlifted to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where she was in serious and stable condition, a center spokeswoman said. Her son Myles, 3, was flown by state MedEvac helicopter to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was being evaluated, a hospital spokeswoman said. The other children, Christian, 1, and Lauren, 5, were treated at Carroll County General Hospital and released to family members, said Trooper Jeff Shipley.

A couple of areas of Harford County particularly hard hit by power outages from Storm Sandy were Fallston and Fountain Green, where many businesses and homes were still dark Tuesday night. Wednesday morning, however, power had restored to much of Fallston and to Fountain Green, and life appeared to be getting back to normal. It was a far different story Tuesday, night, however. The entire Route 1 commercial strip in Fallston from the Bel Air Bypass to the Baltimore County line did not have power around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

An accident involving a dump truck, a trash truck and a Ford Explorer on Route 213 near Cecilton in Cecil County yesterday left one person dead and three injured, according to police. About 1:15 p.m., a trash truck driven by James Weiss of Claymont, Del., was traveling south on Route 213 when Weiss tried to make a left turn onto Bohemia Church Road, police said. A dump truck driven by Salayman Woodbury of Philadelphia traveling behind the trash truck, could not slow down in time to miss the vehicle and swerved left to avoid the truck, according to police.

Pete Landon knows only too well what happens when a motorist isn't paying attention in a highway work zone. So does the college student who was tailgating him while texting. The two vehicles had a near-miss Tuesday morning on the Beltway near Liberty Road, said Landon, who watched the scene in his rearview mirror — and who stopped the other driver and gave her a warning. "We were both lucky. If she had hit me, I probably would have hit the car in front of me," said Landon, a State Police lieutenant colonel on his way to a news conference about highway safety.

A 23-year-old Taneytown woman died yesterday when a loaded dump truck swerved into her path on Md. 140 between Westminster and Taneytown.Maryland State Police said the victim, Lora McKinney Harber, 23, was pronounced dead at the scene.Police said Harber was driving her Ford Ranger truck north on Md. 140 at Pleasant Valley Road shortly after 2:30 p.m. when she reached an area where a state highway crew was painting traffic lines, causing a slowdown in the southbound lanes.A southbound dump truck driven by Kenneth Love, 32, also of Taneytown, was attempting to slow for the traffic congestion when it crossed the center line, striking the front of Harber's pickup on the driver's side.

Articles in the Sept. 15 and 18 editions of The Sun gave incorrect information about a car accident that killed Wybiena Uden, a 28-year-old exercise rider from Holland. The Sept. 13 accident occurred at the intersection of Dorsey Run Road and Junction Drive in Annapolis Junction in Howard County.The Sun regrets the error.Pub Date: 9/21/96A Laurel woman was killed early Saturday in the Annapolis Junction section of Howard County when her car collided with a dump truck.County police said Wybina Uden, 28, was traveling east on Junction Drive when she failed to yield in making a left turn onto Dorsey Run Road.

A Virginia man was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore yesterday after the dump truck he was driving drifted off a private drive on Sheppard Lane in Clarksville and tipped over, Howard County police said. James Everhart, 34, of Purcellville was unconscious at the scene and was taken to the hospital with a possible neck injury, police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn said. Police are investigating whether a medical condition might have caused Everhart to drift off the road while at the wheel of the three-axle dump truck.

A Mount Airy driver was killed yesterday in Washington County when his car slowed to turn left and was struck from behind.State police said Enoch Andrew Harlan, 30, was driving north on Route 63 south of Huyett about 6 a.m. when struck by a car driven by Mary Louise Boles, 55, of Williamsport. The impact sent his car into the southbound lane where it was run over by a dump truck driven by Ricky D. Burger, 31, of Hagerstown.

Two women were killed yesterday afternoon when a 5-ton Anne Arundel County dump truck struck their Chevette near Annapolis and Oakton roads, county police said.It was the second fatal accident involving a county dump truck in a little more than a month.The car driver, Blanche Viola Pleyo, 69, of the 300 block of Nevada Ave. in Odenton and her passenger, Philis Ellen Hodgeson, 66, of the 500 block of Patuxent Road in Odenton were pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Their 1984 Chevrolet Chevette was nearly demolished, the hood almost sheared off and the front end crushed, police said.

A Taneytown man was in serious but stable condition yesterday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center after the dump truck he was driving plunged into a ravine near Anne Arundel Medical Center's Sajak Pavilion in Annapolis. The man, 41, suffered head, neck and back injuries when the truck he was driving during work on Medical Parkway suddenly went up a dirt construction road and down about 50 feet into the excavation site about 1 p.m., said Anne Arundel Fire Department Division Chief John M. Scholz.

A spur of Interstate 895 in Anne Arundel County that leads to the Harbor Tunnel Throughway was closed Thursday night because of a six-vehicle accident. The accident, which occured about 6 p.m., left a dump truck blocking the two northbound traffic lanes, said Sgt. Kirk Perez, a spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Authority Police. As of 7:15 p.m., officers were still waiting for heavy equiptment to move the truck from the roadway, he said. Four people were hurt during the crash but none of the injuries are life-threatening, Perez said.

A two-vehicle accident in northwestern Baltimore County Friday morning seriously injured five people, including two young children. The Baltimore County Police Department Crash Team responded at 8:18 a.m. to the crash at the intersection of Wards Chapel and Liberty roads, near the Carroll County line at Liberty Reservoir. It took about 20 minutes to free all the victims from a Ford Explorer. Rescue units from Carroll County also responded. The Explorer driver, traveling east on Liberty Road, had turned left into the path of a westbound dump truck, police said.

A Whiteford man was killed Saturday afternoon when his motorcycle hit a dump truck in Harford County, police said. Around 1 p.m., Ronald Krulock, 69, was driving his motorcycle east on Dublin Road toward Conowingo Road when he crossed the midline of the road and hit a dump truck, according to a statement Saturday evening from Maryland State Police's Bel Air Barrack. Krulock was thrown from his vehicle. He was taken to Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

Maryland State Police say a dump truck hit an overhead sign on Interstate 70, and the driver kept going. The most serious of three traffic infractions handed to Alvin J. Hall 3rd charges him with leaving the scene of an accident with property damage. If found guilty, the 49-year-old Glen Burnie man could spend up to a year in jail, be fined $3,000 and get 12 points on his license, enough for an on-the-spot revocation. The sign, 75 feet long, spanned three lanes and two shoulders of the eastbound portion of the highway and hung from steel posts and beams about a mile west of the Baltimore Beltway interchange.

Pasadena girl, 10, dies in trailer accident 2 A 10-year-old Anne Arundel County girl died yesterday, shortly after being run over by a trailer pulled by a dump truck operated by her father. Michael Foy of the 800 block of Swift Road in Pasadena was driving a dump truck and pulling a trailer on his property after 2 p.m. when his daughter ran between the vehicles and was run over by the trailer's front wheels, said Sgt. John Gilmer, a spokesman for the Anne Arundel County Police Department.

Not so long ago, Towson was a place that mirrored this year's Republican National Convention: tons of WASPs, miles of blonds and a door prize for spotting a minority of any sort. Obama for America headquarters came to 40 W. Chesapeake Ave. in late September. Here's what happened at the front desk: A diminutive, 82-year-old, Israeli-American grandmother came in to do whatever was asked of her and said she was worried about making phone calls as people might have trouble with her accent.

A Maryland state trooper and a truck driver were injured yesterday afternoon when the trooper's stopped patrol car was hit from behind by a dump truck on Interstate 695 south of Liberty Road, shutting down a stretch of the Beltway.Trooper Michael R. Tagliaferri, who is assigned to the Golden Ring barracks, received neck and back injuries and was treated at and released from Maryland Shock Trauma Center.The truck driver, identified by police as Nathen Michael Graybill, 35, of the 22200 block of Rock Forge Road in Hagerstown, also was taken to Shock Trauma and was treated and released.

A dump truck operator was killed at a Columbia construction site yesterday when part of the truck's rear loader crushed him as he was fixing a pipe on top of the cab, Howard County police said.The name of the victim, an employee of Ingram Excavation Inc. in Baltimore, was not released until police could notify his family, said Sgt. Dave Richards, a police spokesman.About 2 p.m. yesterday, police said, the victim was dumping a load from a green Mack truck at the construction site of Snowden Ridge, a townhouse community under construction by Westbrook Homes near the Gateway business development in Columbia's Owen Brown village.

Blast, fire hit underground construction site Baltimore firefighters responded last night to an underground explosion and fire at a construction site near Maryland General Hospital. No one was injured. The underground fire broke out before 9 p.m. in the 400 block of W. Madison St. at Eutaw Street, said Chief Kevin Cartwright, a spokesman for the Fire Department. Crews from Baltimore Gas and Electric had completed repairs to a 110,000-volt feeder line on the site of a future switching station when they were attempting to restore electricity.

WELCOME -- Three years after a car accident almost crushed the life out of him, Brian Boyle's body is catching up with his spirit. Tomorrow, the St. Mary's College junior will toe the starting line with more than 1,500 triathletes to compete in the Ford Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. The competition - a marathon run, a 112-mile bike ride and a 2.4-mile swim - tests the physical and mental limits of participants. But, in many ways, that's the easy part for Boyle, whose muscled torso is stitched with angry-looking scars and whose skin still releases flecks of black paint and shards of glass.