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A Jeep crashed into a tax preparation office Saturday at 36th Street and Falls Road in Hampden, pinning a pedestrian to the road and sending a wave of glass over people inside, according to witnesses. Tom Hanlon, 63, was inside getting his paperwork done before Monday's filing deadline. “It was like a bomb went off,” he said. “Glass flew past me 30 feet.” Hanlon said he went outside and the driver of the Jeep seemed dazed. People warned him not to back up because another man was trapped underneath the SUV, he added.

A Jeep crashed into a tax preparation office Saturday at 36th Street and Falls Road in Hampden, pinning a pedestrian to the road and sending a wave of glass over people inside, according to witnesses. Tom Hanlon, 63, was inside getting his paperwork done before Monday's filing deadline. “It was like a bomb went off,” he said. “Glass flew past me 30 feet.” Hanlon said he went outside and the driver of the Jeep seemed dazed. People warned him not to back up because another man was trapped underneath the SUV, he added.

A Jeep Cherokee worth nearly $21,000 was whisked off the parking lot of Ritchie Jeep Eagle on Ritchie Highway about 6 p.m. Wednesday, county police said yesterday.A witness told police that the driver of the Jeep cut her off as he left the lot at high speed. About the same time, a burgundy Toyota pickup truck followed the Jeep.Officer Terry Crowe, a police spokesman, speculated that the two suspects might have used the Toyota to drive to the dealership and that it then served as a getaway car for one of them.

Baltimore County Councilman Todd Huff was arrested Saturday under suspicion of driving under the influence in Towson, county police said. The 44-year-old Lutherville Republican is charged with driving while under the influence of alcohol, a headlight violation and negligent driving, police said. He allegedly had a blood-alcohol level that was more than twice the legal limit. Huff was traveling north on York Road near Washington Avenue around 2:30 a.m. in a silver Jeep Grand Cherokee, which is owned by the county, according to a statement of charges filed by police.

A 16-year-old who lives in the Westminster area was arrested last week after he stole and crashed a 1994 Jeep Wrangler, police said.The youth will be held by Juvenile Services until a hearing is held, police said.State police said they were called Wednesday to a house on Gahle Court where a youth had been seen using a screwdriver to tamper with the ignitions of four vehicles.The father of the owner of one of the automobiles chased the youth on foot from Gahle Court to a house on Tannery Road.

When veterans of the Maryland-Virginia 29th Division stand on Normandy's Omaha Beach in a few weeks remembering their landing there on June 6, 1944, D-day, a tangible piece of the division legend may be on hand -- their commanding general's jeep.From Omaha Beach to the link-up with the Russian Army at the Elbe River in 1945, Maj. Gen. Charles H. Gerhardt, the 29th's Pattonesque commander, traveled in the jeep, which he called "Vixen Tor" for a hill near the division's training area at Tavistock in southwestern England.

RISING SUN - A Cecil County man was killed early yesterday morning when the car he was driving struck a wooden fence, and a post speared him in the chest, state police said. John A. Peoples, 23, of the 100 block of Cissel Lane in Rising Sun was traveling south on Little New York Road about 2:30 a.m. when his Jeep went off the road. He was dead at the scene.

Baltimore police have identified two men who were fatally shot Friday while they sat in a sport utility vehicle at a Northwest Baltimore intersection. Quinton Hogan, 23, of the first block of Solar Circle in Parkville and Donell Rogers, 21, of the 2600 block of Ashland Ave. were shot as they sat in a black Jeep Cherokee at Wabash and Rogers avenues about 9:45 a.m., police spokeswoman Nicole Monroe said. The Jeep was stopped at a traffic light in the southbound lane of Wabash when a small white sedan pulled up next to it and gunfire erupted, police said.

State police are investigating a single-vehicle accident that sent the driver to Maryland Shock Trauma Center and caused a three-mile backup on northbound Interstate 97 near Crownsville last night. A man was seriously injured after his Jeep overturned about 7:30 p.m. near the Farm Road overpass, said State Police Cpl. Marc Price of the Annapolis Barracks. The driver was flown by helicopter to Shock Trauma; his name and condition were not available. Price said police believe the man was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident, which delayed many motorists heading home from the Eastern Shore.

David Thames was staring at his half-sunken boat yesterday at Baltimore's Inner Harbor East marina and shaking his head. A woman walked by and asked, "How'd it sink?""A Jeep hit it," Mr. Thames said matter-of-factly.That's right. A Jeep.In a bizarre accident at 1:45 a.m. yesterday, the Jeep carrying two women vaulted up a curb in the 800 block of Lancaster St., flew about 30 feet and smacked onto the stern of Mr. Thames' 26-foot Regal cabin cruiser.Mr. Thames could not place a value on the 1986 boat, but he said it sells for $45,000 new.The accident caused no serious injuries, police said.

A state trooper pulled three people from a burning Lexus early Saturday morning, likely saving the life of one man, police said, while another man and a teenage girl died from their injuries. Police said the crash that set the vehicle ablaze on I-95 at Route 24 near Abingdon might have been caused by road rage. Around 2 a.m. a Lexus, driven by Veney B. Tanner Jr., 31, of Abingdon, was hit by a box truck traveling north on the highway. Off-duty Maryland State Police Cpl. Kevin Watkins came upon the accident just after it had occurred, pulling Tanner and his two passengers out of the car. Watkins performed CPR on an unresponsive Tanner, who was later pronounced dead at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, according to police.

An accident involving two motorcycles and a jeep along northbound Interstate 95 in Howard County Sunday afternoon sent both motorcyclists to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center and closed three travel lanes for about 45 minutes, according to Maryland State Police. The accident occurred about 3:45 p.m., and the three right lanes were reopened about 4:30 p.m., police said. The two motorcyclists were taken to Shock Trauma in critical and serious condition, respectively, according to Marc Fischer, a Howard County Fire & Rescue spokesman.

A Baltimore County police officer who was injured in a three-vehicle accident that shut down part of the inner loop of the Baltimore Beltway on Wednesday has been released from the hospital, a department spokeswoman said. The officer, a 25-year veteran, had been at Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Police had no details on conditions of several other people who were hurt, but said they did not suffer life-threatening injuries. The accident remains under investigation. Det. Cathy Batton, a spokeswoman for the Baltimore County Police Department, said the accident occurred shortly before noon as the police officer was merging onto the highway from Providence Road.

A 20-year old Lutherville man was found dead in his overturned Jeep Cherokee near Cockeysville early Saturday morning, Baltimore County police said. The man, Timothy Christensen, was driving eastbound on Sweet Air Road when his Jeep apparently went out of control, hit a utility pole and turned over, said Cpl. John Wachter, a Baltimore County Police spokesman. No other vehicles or people were involved in the accident, he said. annie.linskey@baltsun.com Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

The fifth annual Mason-Dixon Willys Jeep Gathering will be held Sunday, Oct. 23 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Union Mills Homestead, 3311 Littlestown Pike, in Westminster. Residents are invited to attend the event and classic Jeeps, including models that served in World War II, as well as early civilian models that formed the foundation for today's sport utility vehicles. Admission is free, and food and tours of the Homestead will be available. Call 410-848-2288.

A man wielding a hammer and a shotgun attacked a speed enforcement vehicle on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway near the BWI Marshall Airport exit Wednesday morning, prompting police to close the highway for several hours. Police said the assailant was armed, but they discounted early reports of gunfire. Maryland State Police spokesman Gregory M. Shipley said the attack occurred about 11:30 a.m. in the southbound lanes just north of Interstate 195. He said an older man came out of the woods and approached a parked State Highway Administration Jeep being operated by a speed camera contractor.

A Jeep being driven the wrong way on Interstate 695 near Arbutus in Baltimore County collided with a car early yesterday, killing the car's driver, state police said.According to Sgt. James Forbes of the state police Golden Ring Barracks, a 1988 Jeep Wrangler was traveling south in the northbound lanes of I-695, near Interstate 95, about 2: 45 a.m."There was a driver going southbound on the other side of the freeway, trying to get this guy to see he was heading the wrong way," Forbes said.

A Westminster woman was injured yesterday when a tractor-trailer rammed the rear of her Jeep Grand Cherokee, rupturing fuel tanks on both vehicles and spilling scores of gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel onto a grassy area leading to Longwell Stream, authorities said.Teresa Ann Bonneyville, 41, of the 1000 block of Long Valley Road was flown by MedEvac helicopter to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where she was in fair and stable condition last night, a hospital spokeswoman said.

A 13-year-old girl was struck while trying to cross an Annapolis street Friday afternoon, police said. The girl was attempting to cross Forest Drive, near Tyler Avenue, shortly before 3:30 p.m. when she was struck by a Jeep Cherokee heading east on Forest, said Sgt. Beth Nelson, spokeswoman with the Annapolis Police Department. The girl was flown to Maryland Shock Trauma center for non life-threatening injuries, Nelson said. Nelson said the driver had a green light and the accident appears to be pedestrian error, she said.

A Dundalk woman was killed early today when her car, traveling at what police say was "a high rate of speed," left a road on a curve, struck a utility pole and then a building. Michelle Kosmicki, 27, of the 2800 block of Larkhall Road was driving south on North Point Road in a 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee when the accident occurred at about 2:15 a.m. The vehicle rolled over into the side of a Drug City Pharmacy, according to a spokesman for the Baltimore County police. Kosmicki was pronounced dead at the scene, Cpl. Michael Hill said.