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Two adult drivers, including a Baltimore City police officer, were transported to the hospital Sunday afternoon following a two-car accident in the 800 block of Walker Avenue, near The Alameda. According to witnesses, the city police car and a burgundy sedan collided on Walker Avenue, and the police car knocked down part of a wooden fence. The sedan was driven by a woman, according to one witness. Neither driver appeared to be suffering life-threatening injuries, and the officer was seen walking around after the accident, according to a witness.

Two adult drivers, including a Baltimore City police officer, were transported to the hospital Sunday afternoon following a two-car accident in the 800 block of Walker Avenue, near The Alameda. According to witnesses, the city police car and a burgundy sedan collided on Walker Avenue, and the police car knocked down part of a wooden fence. The sedan was driven by a woman, according to one witness. Neither driver appeared to be suffering life-threatening injuries, and the officer was seen walking around after the accident, according to a witness.

A Columbia woman was hospitalized Thursday after her vehicle and an unmarked police car crashed outside police headquarters in Ellicott City, Howard County police said. Ashley Harrington, 24, was driving a 2003 Chevy Malibu north on Court House Drive about 1 p.m., and Detective Kimberly Solter was making a left turn from Brightwell Drive onto Court House Drive, police said. Solter, in an unmarked 2003 Chevy Impala, was not responding to a call, and did not have lights or sirens activated, police said.

On Saturday night, Denise Kostka and her husband, disturbed by loud voices, peered out from their eighth-floor room in the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel and saw at least 100 teens massing on the street below. "I never saw anything like that, ever," said Kostka, visiting from Springfield, N.J., to take in the sights and see her niece who lives in Federal Hill. Then they saw police surround a car. "I thought, 'Oh my God, it's "COPS" live,'" Kostka said, referring to the popular reality television show.

A Baltimore City police car was severely damaged in a Saturday morning collision at the intersection of Guilford Avenue and Centre Street in Mount Vernon. An officer suffered non-life threatening injuries, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. The officer, who has not been identified, was traveling to an emergency call Saturday morning. At around 5:40 a.m., he was struck by a civilian in a sports utility vehicle traveling eastbound on Centre Street, Guglielmi said. The officer's car spun out from the impact and collided with a street pole, which left it facing the opposite direction on Guilford.

A toddler struck by an unmarked police vehicle on the eastern edge of the Patterson Park neighborhood Thursday afternoon has been treated for minor injuries at Johns Hopkins Children's Center, police said. The 2-year-old boy had stepped off the sidewalk at the intersection of Leverton and South Highland avenues around 3 p.m., police said. The officer, who was turning onto Highland Avenue from the 3400 block of Leverton Ave., spotted the child out of the corner of her eye and immediately braked, police said.

An Anne Arundel County police officer shot and wounded a driver after the officer attempted to complete a traffic stop in Crofton on Saturday night, a spokesman said. The officer attempted the traffic stop at about 7:30 p.m. near Crain and Defense highways, said department spokesman Lt. Michael Brothers. When the driver failed to stop, a pursuit ensued. At some point, the officer's vehicle was rear-ended by the other driver's vehicle, Brothers said. He said the officer opened fire, injuring the suspect, who was taken to an area hospital.

An Anne Arundel County police officer shot and wounded the driver of a van Saturday evening in Prince George's County after the van rammed the officer's car following a brief chase, county police said. The officer, who was not identified, had pursued the van south from Crofton on MD Route 3 about 6:40 p.m. in an attempt to stop it for a registration violation. The officer broke off the chase after crossing into Prince George's County and was preparing to return to Anne Arundel County when the van struck the marked police vehicle at the intersection of Route 3 and MD Route 450, police said.

Say what you will about the controversies the Baltimore Police Department has found itself embroiled in over the years, but we can say definitely that they're not involved in the Trayvon Martin case. That's the Sanford Police Department, outside Orlando, Fla. battling a national firestorm of criticism over its handling of the fatal shooting of the unarmed teen by a neighborhood watch captain.  But in a segment on Comedy Central's Daily Show last night, an image of a city police car somehow found its way into the background of a graphic that read "SANFORD POLICE.

A 6-year-old girl was struck by a police car in West Baltimore Tuesday night, a spokesman said. She suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to a local hospital as a precaution, said Detective Kevin Brown, a city police spokesman. She was treated and released the same day, he said. The 6-year-old was struck in the 1400 block of W. Saratoga St. about 2 p.m., Brown said, but he could not say Tuesday night if the car was responding to a call. The incident remains under investigation.

When a police sergeant approached a black Jeep Cherokee parked on the side of Piney Orchard Parkway in Anne Arundel County, its hazard lights blinking, she thought it would be a routine check on a stranded motorist. But the encounter was the first in a series of events that ended with the motorist's death. Police said that when the sergeant approached, 41-year-old Patrick Raphael Toney, an academic adviser at Bowie State University, got out of the vehicle, threw items onto the ground and spat.

Julien Rosaly's father does not accept that Baltimore police did the best investigation they could with the information they had. He wants them to apologize for arresting his son and friend and charging him with robbing a couple at gunpoint in South Baltimore. But police and prosecutors will mostly likely not say they're sorry, despite dropping all charges against the two men on Friday after reviewing a videotape that shows Rosaly eating in a restaurant at the time of the attack.

A toddler struck by an unmarked police vehicle on the eastern edge of the Patterson Park neighborhood Thursday afternoon has been treated for minor injuries at Johns Hopkins Children's Center, police said. The 2-year-old boy had stepped off the sidewalk at the intersection of Leverton and South Highland avenues around 3 p.m., police said. The officer, who was turning onto Highland Avenue from the 3400 block of Leverton Ave., spotted the child out of the corner of her eye and immediately braked, police said.

Say what you will about the controversies the Baltimore Police Department has found itself embroiled in over the years, but we can say definitely that they're not involved in the Trayvon Martin case. That's the Sanford Police Department, outside Orlando, Fla. battling a national firestorm of criticism over its handling of the fatal shooting of the unarmed teen by a neighborhood watch captain.  But in a segment on Comedy Central's Daily Show last night, an image of a city police car somehow found its way into the background of a graphic that read "SANFORD POLICE.

A Howard County police officer, conducting a traffic stop Friday night near Ellicott City, was struck by a woman allegedly driving under the influence, police said. Pfc. Terrance Sheppard, a 23-year veteran of the force, is being treated at Howard County General Hospital for injuries that are not life threatening, police said. He was hit shortly before midnight while investigating a traffic violation on Route 40 eastbound at Route 29. Sheppard was driving a marked Dodge Charger and had activated its emergency lights before leaving the vehicle about 11:45 p.m. The police car was struck in the rear by a Kia Sorento, driven by Sung Ok Jang, 45, of the 8000 block Randolph Way in Ellicott City, police said.

A Baltimore City police car was severely damaged in a Saturday morning collision at the intersection of Guilford Avenue and Centre Street in Mount Vernon. An officer suffered non-life threatening injuries, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. The officer, who has not been identified, was traveling to an emergency call Saturday morning. At around 5:40 a.m., he was struck by a civilian in a sports utility vehicle traveling eastbound on Centre Street, Guglielmi said. The officer's car spun out from the impact and collided with a street pole, which left it facing the opposite direction on Guilford.

A Howard County police car was destroyed yesterday after it was set ablaze while it was parked outside an officer's Columbia home in the 6400 block of Spicewind Court, police said.Police said a neighbor of the unidentified officer spotted the burning 1993 Ford Crown Victoria cruiser about 4 a.m. in the Owen Brown village neighborhood and called the Fire Department.The Police Department's violent crimes unit and the state fire marshal's office are investigating.Pub Date: 9/09/96

A teenager was fatally struck by a police car while riding his bike Monday night on the Peninsula Expressway in Dundalk, county police said yesterday. Daniel J. Haney, 17, of the 1900 block of Quentin Road in Dundalk was riding his bicycle in the fast lane of the expressway about 11 p.m. Monday when he was struck, police said. Haney rode his bike onto the roadway and the officer, who was headed southbound on a call, didn't have enough time to react to avoid the collision, said police spokeswoman Vickie Warehime.

A former Howard County police officer is scheduled to be sentenced Friday after being found guilty of assaulting a police officer from Baltimore City during an altercation outside a bar in Canton in August last year. A Baltimore Circuit Court jury on Wednesday found Casey R. Lechter, 23, guilty of assault and disorderly conduct, and not guilty of resisting arrest, according to his attorney. Lechter's brother, Kary Williams, 35, was convicted of disorderly conduct and acquitted of assault and resisting arrest.