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A waterspout zipped across Baltimore harbor Monday afternoon, tossing pieces of a warehouse roof into the air, and at least one other tornado was reported in the area as storms brought heavy downpours and flooding. In Fells Point, cars sat in standing water and sandbags were placed at doors to prevent water from entering businesses. In the Inner Harbor, 1.74 inches of rain had fallen by 5 p.m. - all but a half-inch of it in the span of an hour before 4 p.m. Steve Fogleman, a Glen Burnie attorney and chairman of the Baltimore liquor board, was driving north on Interstate 95 just south of the Fort McHenry tunnel a little before 4 p.m. when he noticed a rotating cloud and something whipping through the air near Silo Point.

John Alban Jr., the driver seriously injured after his truck collided with a freight train in Rosedale last week — triggering an explosion felt around the region — was discharged from the hospital. Maryland Shock Trauma Center spokeswoman Cynthia Rivers said Monday that Alban had been discharged Sunday. The 50-year-old Essex man had been in serious condition since the crash last Tuesday. After Alban's truck struck the southbound 45-car freight train, 15 cars derailed and chemicals on board caught fire and exploded, shearing off the side of a nearby building and blowing out windows and cracking ceilings on other buildings.

A lane of southbound traffic was closed briefly on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Anne Arundel County last night after metal chains dangling from the Baltimore Beltway overpass shattered windshields on several buses and trucks, state police reported. A police spokesman said the chains - for construction work on the Beltway - apparently came loose and dangled far enough below to strike the windshields of high vehicles, such as trucks and buses, on the parkway. Southbound traffic was diverted to one lane while a state roads crew retrieved and secured the chains.

The ramp from eastbound I-695 to southbound Route 170, also called Camp Meade Road, will be closed from 11 p.m. Friday through 5 a.m. Monday, Maryland State Highway Administration officials said. Signs for a detour will be posted.  Motorists should take Route 170 north to Route 648, turn right on Route 648, then right onto Route 169. From there, they can reach Route 170 southbound. The work, in Linthicum, uses a polyester-epoxy modified concrete and may accomplish the job over a weekend.

One person was injured last night in a multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 95 in Catonsville that delayed traffic for more than an hour, state police reported. About 8:45 p.m., two southbound vehicles collided on I-95 near the Beltway, causing one to overturn while the other landed on top of it and burst into flames. Two other vehicles then crashed into them, police said. Heavy southbound traffic came to a halt, backing up for more than 2 miles before two of the traffic lanes were reopened.

Two people were injured last night, one of them critically, when three vehicles collided in the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 in Howard County, less than a mile from the scene of a fatal crash Tuesday, state police reported. The latest crash occurred shortly after 8 p.m. near a rest area in the Savage area, where a passer-by reported seeing a fireball rising from the site - apparently from an exploding gasoline tank. Details were unavailable. One victim was taken to Laurel Regional Hospital, and the other to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, said state police Sgt. William Bergan at the Waterloo Barracks.

Two women, including a Johns Hopkins University student, were killed yesterday in a six-vehicle accident in the southbound lanes of the Jones Falls Expressway that was caused by an elderly man driving the wrong way, police said. Police said the 85-year-old man entered the wrong ramp at either the Druid Park Lake Drive/28th Street or North Avenue exit and began traveling north in the southbound lanes about 5: 15 p.m. The man, who was driving a 1991 Ford Taurus, collided with a 1998 Saturn north of the Falls Road exit and then collided with several other vehicles, police said.

The Baltimore Department of Transportation today announced nightly ramp closures this week along Northern Parkway to southbound Interstate 83 for utility work. Detours are scheduled to go into effect tonight, and the ramp will close between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. each night through Friday, weather permitting, officials said. One lane of the southbound Jones Falls Expressway will also be closed for traffic this week, according to the department. Motorists traveling in this vicinity are encouraged to use alternate routes.

All southbound lanes of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway near Interstate 195 in Linthicum were briefly closed this afternoon after a vehicle drove through a construction barrier and struck three workers, according to Maryland State Police. Sgt. Philip Nolan said the three workers -- reportedly two men and one woman -- were taken to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the blue Volkswagen involved in the accident was not injured, Nolan said. He could not immediately provide the model of the vehicle, and police were investigating why the driver went through the barrier.

A Rosedale area man was struck and killed early this morning on Interstate 795 in Owings Mills after he and the driver of the vehicle he was riding in got into a dispute, during which both men got out and ran along the roadway, according to Maryland State Police. Authorities said Salvatore Aquia, 26, was struck by a tractor-trailer and a pickup truck around 5:25 a.m. at Mount Wilson Lane as he allegedly ran in and out of traffic, at one point pulling the antenna off a vehicle that swerved and stopped to avoid him and striking the car with the antenna.

All southbound traffic lanes were closed on MD 151 South in Baltimore County at 7:41 a.m., due to a one-vehicle collision, one of two incidents that forced lane closures during Tuesday morning rush hour, according to the state Department of Transportation. In the other incident, a disabled vehicle in Anne Arundel County on US 50 East at the Cape Street/St. Claire Road exit closed the eastbound left merge lane and one of two eastbound shoulders at 6:17 a.m., DOT said. The Maryland Transit Authority reported minor delays on the Metro subway and MARC train at 8:50 a.m. Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

Emergency roadwork has closed the two southbound lanes of York Road between Greenmeadow Drive and Timonium Road in Lutherville-Timonium. Traffic is being routed through the center lane.

A crash involving several cars temporarily shut down the southbound lanes of Interstate 83 during Wednesday evening's commute. The crash occurred about 4:45 p.m. near the Guilford Avenue exit, and officials were encouraging drivers to stay away from the area. The scene had been cleared as of about 5:20 p.m., but officials warned that traffic would remain delayed for some time. Police said at least one person had been taken to the hospital with unknown injuries, but had no further information.

Two accidents with injury hampered the Monday morning commute, including a crash on US 50 near MD 97/Collingwood Road westbound that has the left lane and left shoulder closed as of 8:32 a.m. The state Department of Transportation also reported an accident with injury on Interstate 95 at Exit 49 northbound at 8:13 a.m. that closed the left lane and shoulder. Also reported was an accident on MD 100 where the highway connects to Interstate 97 at Exit 13 A-B, at 8:21 a.m. No injuries or lane closures were reported.

Route 295 southbound was shut down at Arundel Mills Boulevard on Tuesday afternoon for an accident, police said. The crash was reported about 4 p.m., according to the State Highway Administration. All southbound traffic lanes and shoulders were closed to traffic for about an hour, with a single lane and shoulder open as of 5 p.m. Police had cleared the accident by 8 p.m., according to SHA. sdance@baltsun.com twitter.com/ssdance

An accident in the southbound lanes of Interstate 83 at 28th Street in Baltimore has been cleared, police said. No one was injured in the accident, police said. No further information was available. Earlier Saturday, one man was transported to the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in serious but stable condition after the pickup truck he was driving collided with a tree in Fallston. Officials said the accident occurred shortly before 2:30 p.m. off Stratford Road near Mountain Road as a light snow fell.

MORGAN STATE University students eager to get to the head of the parking class often stop by the right lane curb in the 4400 block of southbound Hillen Road beginning around 8: 30 a.m.Only problem is, parking is illegal there between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m.This attempt to shirk parking laws has caused a continual bottleneck for rush hour commuters navigating the Northeast Baltimore thoroughfare to get to work or school on time."

Two tractor-trailers crashed near the Maryland House rest area on Interstate 95 in Harford County yesterday morning, tying up southbound traffic for nearly two hours, state police said. No one was injured. The accident happened about 6:15 a.m. after a southbound tractor-trailer swerved to miss a broken-down vehicle in the roadway, said Cpl. Christopher McQuaide of the JFK Barracks. When the truck swerved, it sideswiped another southbound tractor-trailer and the two trailers locked, skidding to a halt and blocking the southbound lanes, he said.

As of 9 a.m. Wednesday, traffic was slow on Veterans Highway at Benfield Boulevard in Anne Arundel County, due to an accident. Accidents were slowing traffic on Milford Mill Road near Liberty Road in Baltimore County, and on Route 91 near Deer Park Road in Finksburg. A vehicle fire was slowing traffic on I-95 northbound at Pulaski Highway in Baltimore County. Monument Street is closed between Wolfe Street and Patterson Park Avenue in East Baltimore due to sinkhole repairs.

As of 8:30 a.m. Thursday, I-83 was closed at Old York Road near the Maryland-Pennsylvania line, due to clean-up from a 3:30 a.m. head-on accident involving three tractor trailer trucks. Officials are advising motorists to use southbound York Road as an alternate route. Accidents were slowing traffic on Troyer Road at Old York Road in Baltimore County, Liberty Heights Road and Rogers Avenue in Baltimore City, Route 40 and Route 70 in Howard County, Jennifer Road and Medical Parkway in Anne Arundel County, Graystone Road near Wiseburg Road in Baltimore County, the outer loop of I-695 near Security Boulevard in Baltimore County, Route 295 southbound near Route 100 in Anne Arundel County, U.S. 50 eastbound near Cape St. Claire Road in Anne Arundel County, and Guilford Road and Brock Bridge Road in Howard County.