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Maryland State Police closed Interstate 83 in both directions for an hour Sunday after an accident near Hereford in northern Baltimore County sent one person to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore and two others to area hospitals. State police said the accident occurred about noon, when a car backing up on the northbound shoulder of the expressway's median swerved into the travel lane and the path of a pickup truck towing a boat. The passenger of the car was flown to Shock Trauma center while the driver of the vehicle was taken to York Hospital and the driver of the pickup truck to Greater Baltimore Medical Center.

A city police officer was taken to Mercy Medical Center after his police cruiser was rear-ended by another vehicle on the southbound Jones Falls Expressway late Monday afternoon, according to a police spokesman. The officer was on the side of the roadway near West 29th Street writing a report on a separate accident when his cruiser was struck, said Sgt. Anthony Smith. The officer did not have apparent injuries, but was taken to the hospital to be checked by medical personnel as a precaution, Smith said.

A 56-year-old man who drove around a police roadblock was injured Friday after an officer shot at his back window, causing him to lose control of his pickup truck and crash off Interstate 83 in Hampden, police said. Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III said that he was concerned about the shooting and that investigators are trying to determine why the officer fired the shot after the vehicle was heading away from him. The driver, who was not identified, was injured either by broken glass or bullet fragments, police said.

The Baltimore police officer who was thrown over the side of Interstate 83 and fell 20 feet after a car crashed into her vehicle as she helped a stranded motorist has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the driver and the owner of the vehicle. The driver, 23-year-old Robert R. Vanderford, is scheduled to appear in District Court this week for a trial on traffic charges related to the June 21, 2011, incident. The charges include failure to control vehicle speed to avoid a collision, failure to reduce speed in dangerous weather and driving while his license was suspended in another state.

Baltimore police said a traffic accident Friday afternoon at Interstate 83 and Falls Road happened moments after a motorist drove at an officer, who fired his weapon. Detective Jeremy Silbert, a police spokesman, said the officer was blocking traffic on West 28 t h Street near the ramp to northbound I-83 about 1 p.m. when the driver of the vehicle attempted to maneuver past the officer. Silbert said the officer discharged his weapon. It was not clear whether the driver was struck, but the vehicle continued onto I-83, then crashed after exiting onto Falls Road.

One lane of I-83 southbound was closed Tuesday afternoon when a tractor trailer lost some of its 78,000 pounds of potting soil, according to officials. A state police spokesman said the right shoulder and right lane on I-83 south, near Mt.Carmel Road is expected to reopen by about 7 p.m. The spokesman said no one was injured. He could not say how much soil was deposited on the road, but by 6:30 p.m., the truck had been righted.

A 22-year-old Hyattsville man has been charged with negligent driving after police say he crashed his car while driving drunk on I-83 early Monday, killing his passenger. Freddy Cortez Flores, who police say is an illegal immigrant, was driving northbound on I-83 just before 1 a.m. when he lost control of his vehicle and crossed over the right lanes, striking a Jersey wall near Guilford Avenue. Police say he was driving 65 miles an hour in a 40 mile-per-hour zone. Cortez Flores' passenger, Carlos O. Cardoza Portillo, was wearing his seat belt but was partially ejected and dragged against the Jersey wall for 567 feet before the vehicle came to rest, police said.

State police identified yesterday the man killed Sunday after losing control of his motorcycle on Interstate 83 in Baltimore County as Derrand Anthony Bradford, 29, of the 3700 block of Hillsdale Road in Forest Park. Police said Bradford was driving a 2001 Honda motorcycle north on I-83 near Mount Washington about 5:30 p.m. when he lost control of the vehicle on a curve and struck a guardrail. Bradford, who was thrown from the motorcycle, was pronounced dead at the scene. He was wearing a helmet.

A collision at Padonia Road and Interstate 83 in Cockeysville snarled traffic and shut down portions of both roads late Saturday night, Baltimore County police said. The crash, involving a car and truck, occurred about 10 p.m. At least two people were injured. No details were immediately available on the cause of the crash or the conditions of the victims.

Fewer traffic tie-ups on York Road are expected after today's opening of a new exit off Interstate 83.Shortly after evening rush hour, state officials are scheduled to open the 1.5-mile-long extension of Warren Road from York Road to I-83 in Cockeysville.The $17.5 million project includes a partial interchange with the highway and a 350-space park-and-ride lot.This latest interchange will permit motorists to travel north on I-83 and then east on Warren Road, or west on Warren Road and south on I-83.

As of 9 a.m. Friday, traffic was slow on I-83 southbound near Old Pimlico Road, due to an accident. Accidents were slowing traffic on Route 100 westbound near Oakwood Road in Anne Arundel County and Putty Hill Avenue and Goucher Boulevard in Baltimore County. Light rail service is suspended between the Timonium and Hunt Valley stations due to construction work. A shuttle bus service is available instead. Otherwise, there were no major delays reported on Baltimore area transit systems.

As of 4:30 p.m., there was a disabled vehicle on Interstate 83 at Exit 16, Timonium Road, that was slowing northbound traffic. The disabled vehicle is north of the Baltimore Beltway. There were no delays reported on Baltimore area transit systems.  For the most up-to-date traffic information,  visit The Baltimore Sun's traffic map .

Authorities are searching for the driver of a car that struck and injured a Maryland state trooper early Sunday on Interstate 83 as he stood near a car that he had stopped. Trooper First Class Jason M. James, 30, was conducting a traffic stop on the shoulder of northbound I-83, north of Ruxton Road, at 1 a.m., authorities said, when he was struck by the mirror and side of a passing vehicle. He was then pushed into the car he had stopped, authorities said. James, who was in uniform and wearing a reflective jacket, used his radio to report that he had been struck and asked for help, authorities said, adding that pieces of the car that struck James were found at the scene.

The ramp from northbound I-83 to the inner loop of the Baltimore Beltway closed Thursday afternoon to reconstruct Wednesday's fatal accident that claimed the life of a 5-year-old boy but has reopened, authorities say. The accident occurred about 3 p.m. Wednesday when a sport utility vehicle rear-ended a sedan occupied by a man, his wife and their two children. A 9-year-old girl suffered a broken leg and remains hospitalized along her parents. Their son, Jake Owen, was killed in the crash.

As of 9 a.m., traffic was slow on the inner loop of I-695 near I-83, due to an accident involving two vehicles. Accidents were slowing traffic on I-95 southbound at Route 100 in Howard County, Route 10 northbound at Ordnance Road in Anne Arundel County, I-97 southbound near New Cut Road in Anne Arundel County, I-895 southbound near Moravia Road in Baltimore City and York Road at Warren Road in Baltimore County. The Maryland Transit Administration is warning patrons to expect some minor delays in service on the light rail from Hunt Valley to the Cromwell and BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport stops.

As of 4 p.m. Thursday, traffic was slow on northbound of Interstate 83 between Ruxton Road and Northern Parkway due to an accident. There were no major delays reported on area transit systems for the Thursday evening commute.

A Pennsylvania man died yesterday afternoon after the motorcycle he was driving south on Interstate 83 crashed as he attempted to enter the outer loop of Interstate 695 near Lutherville, state police said. Shortly before 4 p.m., James Stuart Price, 62, of Shrewsbury failed to negotiate the ramp while riding a 1980 Yamaha XL1100 and crashed after riding over rumble strips, said Tfc. John Krysiak of the Golden Ring Barracks. Price, who served two tours of duty in Vietnam and was following his son and daughter-in-law on another motorcycle to the Eastern Shore, was taken by a Baltimore County Fire Department ambulance to Sinai Hospital, where he died of multiple head injuries at 4:30 p.m. Krysiak said Price was wearing a nonregulated helmet.