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At least 19 people were injured, four of them critically, when a station wagon crashed through the wall of a crowded Baltimore County tavern last night. The driver lost control of the vehicle about 10:36 p.m., struck another car and plowed into the popular Firehouse Tavern in the 2800 block of E. Joppa Road in Carney, pinning patrons against the bar, walls and pool tables, said Lt. Thomas McLewee of the Towson Precinct. The four most severerly injured victims were transported by helicopters to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.

Harford County: Madonna Head-on collision kills two women A collision yesterday afternoon in Madonna claimed the lives of two women, one from Baltimore County and the other from Pennsylvania, said state police at the Bel Air Barracks. A 1996 Chevrolet Blazer heading east on Norrisville Road suddenly entered the westbound lane and crashed head-on into a 2000 Subaru Outback, police reported. After the crash, the Subaru hit a utility pole. Police said Kimberly Kudrick, 39, of Felton, Pa., the driver of the Blazer, died at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air. Nancy Elizabeth Tillman, 64, of White Hall, the Subaru driver, died at Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, police said.

TOKYO -- General Motors Corp. agreed yesterday to buy 20 percent of Japan's Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., the maker of Subaru vehicles, for $1.4 billion to accelerate GM's push into Asia.The investment, which was expected, gives the world's largest automaker an interest in an automaker known for four-wheel-drive vehicles.With its existing Japanese holdings, GM now has a position in every segment of Japan's auto market, including mini-vehicles, small and midsize cars and trucks.GM already owns 10 percent of Suzuki Motor Corp.

The drivers of a Subaru Impreza and a Chevrolet Impala darted in and out of rush-hour traffic on Route 32 in Gambrills at raceway speeds. When the Subaru driver slammed on his brakes, his vehicle spun out of control and smashed into a Mazda 626, killing him and the Mazda's passenger. Authorities said the accident Tuesday morning underscores the perils of aggressive driving, which they said is a growing problem in the county. The Anne Arundel County Police Department recently completed an extensive campaign during which officers issued nearly 3,500 tickets and made 146 arrests.

POLICE LOG* Savage: 8900 block of River Island Drive: A black 1985 Subaru with Maryland tags BZV-197 was stolen Monday.

POLICE LOG* Hickory Ridge: 5800 block of Harness Court: Someone tried to steal a 1987 Subaru by breaking its ignition Friday night or Saturday, police said.

POLICE LOG* Long Reach: 8400 block of Each Leaf Court: A 1991 Subaru Legacy stolen shortly after midnight Wednesday was recovered by police in Essex in Baltimore County later the same day.8900 block of Tamar Drive: A light blue 1992 Subaru Legacy with Maryland tags ZLE807 was stolen Wednesday, police said.

Police logTown Center: 5800 block of Wyndham Circle: A white 1993 Subaru, Maryland tags AXW-181, was stolen between 7: 30 p.m. Tuesday and 8: 15 a.m. Wednesday.Town Center: 5800 block of Wyndham Circle: A white 1993 Subaru, Maryland tags VZR-040, was stolen between 7 p.m. Tuesday and 7: 40 a.m. Wednesday.Town Center: 5800 block of Wyndham Circle: A green 1992 Subaru Legacy stolen between 11: 10 p.m. Tuesday and 7: 10 a.m. Wednesday was recovered Wednesday.Pub Date: 8/23/96

Police logHickory Ridge: 10900 block of Trotting Ridge Way: A gold-colored 1990 Subaru Legacy with Maryland tags CEY-769 was stolen Saturday or Sunday, police said.

A 78-year-old Baltimore County woman suffered fatal injuries and her husband was critically injured yesterday in a three-car collision at Ritchie Highway and Fitzallen Road in Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel County police said.According to police, Robert L. Glenn Sr., 84, of the 3700 block of Bay Drive in Middle River, Baltimore County, was driving a 1988 Chevrolet station wagon south on Ritchie Highway about 1 p.m. when he crossed into the northbound lane as he turned left onto Fitzallen Road and was struck by a 1991 Subaru station wagon.

Seth Meiller spent the past week saying goodbye to friends and family in Maryland as he prepared to spend a year in Colorado mountain climbing and teaching preschool. At a dinner at his parents' Lutherville home Sunday night, the 24-year-old former special education teacher and Loyola Blakefield High School graduate said he'd be back soon. But Meiller's life would end Monday as he and his elder sister drove west through Illinois on Interstate 74. Police, who were trying yesterday to sort out what happened, said Meiller's car was forced across the median and into the path of an eastbound tractor-trailer.

Two children were taken by helicopter to the Johns Hopkins Hospital pediatric intensive care unit yesterday after the minivan they were traveling in was struck by a car running a red light in Severn, authorities said. The children - a 7-year-old girl and a 6-week-old boy - and their mother were in a Ford Windstar heading north on Veterans Highway about 4:15 p.m. when a Subaru Outback traveling west on Crain Highway ran a red light and struck them in the intersection, said Anne Arundel County police Sgt. James Fredericks.

Firehouse Tavern was Carney's longtime watering hole, the kind of neighborhood joint that lived up to the cliche about a place where everyone knows your name. At 10:30 Monday night, with the weekly darts tournament in full swing and the two pool tables hopping, the 40 or so people who had gathered there couldn't hear the screaming whine of a Subaru Outback headed their way -- not until it burst through the wall at an estimated speed of 100 mph. "I was waiting in line for a beer and the next thing I know I was on top of a car. I didn't know it was a car until everything settled down.

At least 19 people were injured, four of them critically, when a station wagon crashed through the wall of a crowded Baltimore County tavern last night. The driver lost control of the vehicle about 10:36 p.m., struck another car and plowed into the popular Firehouse Tavern in the 2800 block of E. Joppa Road in Carney, pinning patrons against the bar, walls and pool tables, said Lt. Thomas McLewee of the Towson Precinct. The four most severerly injured victims were transported by helicopters to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.

TOKYO -- General Motors Corp. agreed yesterday to buy 20 percent of Japan's Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., the maker of Subaru vehicles, for $1.4 billion to accelerate GM's push into Asia.The investment, which was expected, gives the world's largest automaker an interest in an automaker known for four-wheel-drive vehicles.With its existing Japanese holdings, GM now has a position in every segment of Japan's auto market, including mini-vehicles, small and midsize cars and trucks.GM already owns 10 percent of Suzuki Motor Corp.

MOUNT MAUNA KEA, Hawaii -- In a mountaintop ceremony bringing together a Japanese princess and members of the Hawaiian royal order wearing crimson robes, Japan inaugurated on Friday what many astronomers expect will soon prove to be the world's most powerful land-based telescope. Experts who gathered under a dazzling sun at the 13,796-foot summit of Mount Mauna Kea, Hawaii's tallest mountain, said the 26.9-foot instrument, known by the Japanese name for the constellation Pleiades, or Subaru, would help propel Japan from astronomical obscurity into the highest echelons of space-observing nations.

A man questioned in Friday's armed holdup of a Roland Park NationsBank is expected to be charged with bank robbery tomorrow, the FBI said, giving authorities their first break since three suspects outran them in a high-speed chase down Interstate 95.Dante Carrington, 22, who police said owned the silver-colored 1993 Subaru Legacy they pursued for 33 miles, was formally arrested yesterday by federal authorities and is being detained until his arraignment in...

What started as a routine check on a vehicle's tags in Ellicott City last weekend turned into a chase involving a car driving in reverse, police dogs and a helicopter, eventually leading to the arrest of an 18-year-old man and the recovery of two stolen cars, Howard County police said.About 10 p.m. Sunday, police Officer Guy Williams, suspicious of the driver of a Subaru Legacy that was on Rogers Avenue, ran the check, police said.As Williams learned that the car had been reported stolen, the Subaru quickly turned onto Oak West Drive, a short, dead-end street, police said.