Minor Injuries

Baltimore police were investigating a fight early yesterday between two off-duty city police officers that ended with one stabbed in the back. The fight occurred about 7:45 a.m. in the 3600 block of Raymonn Ave. in Northeast Baltimore. Police identified the officers involved as Walter Brown, 24, and Larry Worsley, 23, both assigned to the Central District. The officer who was stabbed, Brown, drove himself to Maryland Shock Trauma Center and was treated for minor injuries, said Officer Troy Harris, a police spokesman.

Four people, including two children, were seriously injured and three other people suffered minor injuries in a collision yesterday in Pasadena.The accident occurred at Bodkin Avenue and Mountain Road. The driver of a Ford pickup traveling west on Mountain Road swerved into the eastbound lanes to avoid hitting a turning vehicle, Anne Arundel County police said.The pickup struck a Plymouth minivan traveling east.Officer Marc Gelven said the driver of the minivan was transported to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.

A Brooklyn Park woman was arrested on drug and traffic charges Tuesday morning after a traffic accident on Ritchie Highway at Hammonds Lane, county police said.Northern District Officer William Selander reported that a 1992 Oldsmobile had crashed into a truck and a Camaro about 5 a.m. The drivers of those vehicles were taken to Harbor Hospital for treatment of minor injuries, police said.The driver of the Oldsmobile failed a field sobriety test. She was arrested and a search of her car turned up cigarettes containing suspected PCP. She was treated at North Arundel Hospital for minor injuries and released, police said.

Four people were transported to the University of Shock Trauma Center for non-life-threatening injuries after an accident involving an ambulance and a vehicle at Cathedral and Preston streets at 1:40 p.m. yesterday. Officials said the ambulance was struck in the rear on the driver's side by a Dodge Charger in the middle of the intersection. The ambulance was en route to a hospital with an elderly patient at the time of the crash. The elderly patient was transported with minor injuries; the attending paramedic suffered a laceration to the head.

The Thanksgiving holiday travel nightmare seemed to begin in earnest last night when a multiple-vehicle accident on northbound Interstate 95 at Mountain Road in Harford County triggered 11 other collisions and a 13-mile backup that stretched from Baltimore to Joppa. Five vehicles were involved in the initial crash, which occurred about 6 p.m., said state police Cpl. Britt Moore. The cause of the accident, which resulted in minor injuries, was under investigation. Eleven additional collisions were reported in the northbound lanes within the two hours after the initial pileup, Moore said, and additional minor injuries were reported.

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Three children - one of them a 2-year-old boy - were hospitalized Sunday after a fire in a Glen Burnie apartment. A 19-year-old woman was also seriously hurt, and two adults suffered minor injuries in an altercation at the scene. Lt. Stuart Peters, Anne Arundel County Fire Department spokesman, said firefighters were summoned to a top-floor apartment in a complex at 129 Warwickshire Lane just after 10:30 a.m. and found a small but smoky fire in a pot on the stove. The boy was taken to Johns Hopkins Children's Center with "possibly life-threatening injuries," Peters said.

Baltimore County Police have identified the 39-year-old man killed Tuesday while performing lawn maintenance at North Charles Street and Old Willow Way in Towson. The victim was identified as Noe Rodriguez Alverto, of Middle River. At 10:53 a.m. Tuesday, police and fire units responded to a call for a pedestrian struck. Police said a 2002 Chrysler PT Cruiser driven by Malinda Johnson, 41, had been traveling northbound on North Charles Street when it struck Alverto. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

A man died Thursday after he was involved in a two-car accident near Owings Mills Mall, police said. The 25-year-old man, whose name has not yet been released, was making a left turn from a private driveway onto southbound Red Run Boulevard when his Honda Civic was struck by a northbound Volkswagen Passat, according to Baltimore County Police. The accident occurred about 7:45 a.m. He was taken to Northwest Hospital in Randallstown, where he was pronounced dead. The driver of the Passat suffered minor injuries, police said.

A multi-vehicle collision on Solomons Island Road in Harwood left one driver with life-threatening injuries and two other drivers and a passenger with a range of serious and minor injuries around 4 p.m. Friday, Anne Arundel County Police said. Timothy Alan Hartman of Mechanicsville, Md., was taken to University of Maryland Shock Trauma center with life-threatening injuries after the Ford pickup truck that he was driving southbound on Solomons Island Road near Harwood Road struck a minivan, police said.