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Baltimore : Fatal crash Two die when car hits tractor-trailer Two Baltimore men were killed yesterday morning when the car in which they were riding crashed into a tractor-trailer in the 5100 block of Baltimore National Pike. When police arrived at the scene about 6 a.m., they found a 1999 Cadillac wedged underneath the rear of the tractor-trailer. Police said the driver and his passenger - whose names were not released - died upon impact with the tractor-trailer, which was stopped at a red light.

A woman was critically injured yesterday when her car was "sandwiched" between two tractor-trailers on Interstate 695 near Catonsville, the first in a series of accidents that left police scrambling to keep traffic moving on the interstate highways near the city, authorities said.One truck driver was charged with a traffic violation in the accident, which closed both sides of the Beltway for a time and left the woman's car so mangled that investigators could not be sure of the model."The only thing that was left was the passenger area," said Tfc. Tracy Hart, of the Maryland State Police Golden Ring barracks.

Man injured in collision with farm machineryA Westminster motorist whose van collided late Tuesday with a piece of farm machinery on a South Carroll road remained in serious condition yesterday, a spokeswoman at Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore said.Brian J. Zorbach, 25, of the 2800 block of Sykesville Road was pinned in the van for more than a hour before rescue workers extricated him. An emergency trauma team from Baltimore was flown in to treat his injuries.According to state police, Zorbach was traveling north on Klee Mill Road at Bartholow Road when his van crested a hill and met an approaching John Deere tractor operated by Dwight B. Scott, 41, of the 1000 block of Humbert Schoolhouse Road in Westminster.

A 2-year-old girl died of head injuries Wednesday night after she walked behind a piece of farm machinery being operated by her 15-year-old brother at the family's farm near Uniontown, Maryland State Police said yesterday.Mariah Jeanine Mullinix, who turned 2 in January, had been playing in a barn stall shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday while her brother was cleaning another stall with a skid loader, according to police.Police said the little girl moved behind the machine as it was backing up.She was flown by MedEvac helicopter to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where she was pronounced dead at 9: 19 p.m., said Detective Sgt. Nick Plazio, a state police spokesman.

If engineers in Baltimore and Washington are chosen to design the nation's first magnetic levitation train, they can call on 13-year-olds Ryan Corces and Drew Graybeal for help.With 75 cents' worth of Styrofoam, tape, glue and a motor half the length of a shotgun shell, the duo from Mount View Middle School in Howard County had one of the fastest trains to zip down a 24-foot track set up in the Baltimore Museum of Industry yesterday for the Maryland Engineering Challenge."If we had started with this one we would've gotten at least 20" trips down the track, Drew said, holding the speedy red Mount View train that made six trips.

A woman was killed yesterday when a tractor she was riding on overturned, the Frederick County Sheriff's Office reported.According to the sheriff's office, Carol Lynn Devilbiss, 52, of the 7700 block of Sundays Lane in Frederick was riding on a tractor driven by her husband, Joseph, who was hauling a manure spreader.The tractor was descending a steep grade on the Devilbiss' farm about 11: 20 a.m. when the weight of the spreader pushed it forward.When the tractor reached the bottom of the grade, it jack-knifed and overturned.

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A 2-year-old girl died of head injuries Wednesday night after she walked behind a piece of farm machinery being operated by her 15-year-old brother at the family's farm near Uniontown, Maryland State Police said yesterday.Mariah Jeanine Mullinix, who turned 2 in January, had been playing in a barn stall shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday while her brother was cleaning another stall with a skid loader, according to police.Police said the little girl moved behind the machine as it was backing up.She was flown by MedEvac helicopter to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where she was pronounced dead at 9: 19 p.m., said Detective Sgt. Nick Plazio, a state police spokesman.

An unidentified woman was killed last night when the car she was driving north on Interstate 83 slammed into a tractor-trailer and overturned about a mile south of Ruxton Road.Maryland State Police said the woman lost control of her vehicle about 9: 30 p.m. Police said no passengers were in the car.It was not known whether anyone in the tractor-trailer was injured. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.The accident closed northbound I-83 between Northern Parkway and Ruxton Road for several hours and backed up traffic for about two miles.

Woman who died in crash on I-95 is identified The woman who died Wednesday after the tractor-trailer driven by her husband crashed on northbound Interstate 95 near Washington Boulevard and burst into flames has been identified as Diana Roser, 63, of DeLand, Fla., said a spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Authority Police. Cpl. Robert Thibodeau, the spokesman, said the rig was being driven by Dennis Roser, 63, when it became involved in a collision with several other vehicles and jackknifed.

A wheel fell off a truck being towed Wednesday on the Capital Beltway's outer loop, crossed the median, stuck the grill of a tractor-trailer and ricocheted back across three travel lanes before landing on Channing M. Quinichett's Honda Civic. The wheel landed on the car's roof and front windshield, killing Quinichett, a University of Maryland senior, as she drove to a prenatal massage appointment. "Half a second earlier, she'd be 44 feet ahead; half a second later, she'd be 44 feet behind," said first sgt. Russell Newell of the Maryland State Police.

Jessica Granek and a group of friends hoped to fit in a ski trip yesterday before their spring semester starts at the University of Maryland this month. As the students headed downhill on snowy westbound Interstate 70 in Western Maryland, they saw an SUV turned sideways on the highway. Cars began to slide out of control, Granek said. Tractor-trailers crashed into the cars. "We're witnessing people just smashing into each other," recalled Granek, 21. "That was probably the most frightening thing, just seeing tractor-trailers out of control."

Four people were injured early yesterday morning when a tractor-trailer hit another vehicle, overturned and spilled acetone on southbound Interstate 95 in Harford County, prompting road closures during the cleanup and investigation, according to Maryland State Police. Shortly after 2 a.m., the driver of a pickup truck slowed nearly to a stop near the scene of an earlier crash on southbound I-95 south of Route 22, according to a news release. A southbound tractor-trailer rear-ended the pickup and overturned onto the guardrail in the center median, according to the release.

Sunshine Royston chose Sept. 20, the day of her late father's birthday, as the day of her wedding. She was a year old when Chet Royston died in a motorcycle accident in Baltimore. Now the relatives who had helped arrange her wedding are preparing for her funeral. Royston and six of her friends had arranged to use a stretch limousine for her bachelorette party, which included time at the Power Plant in the Inner Harbor, said her maternal grandfather, Fred Thiess. About 4:30 a.m. yesterday, a tractor-trailer collided with the limousine in the 4000 block of E. Monument St., killing Royston.

The Maryland Transportation Authority owns and operates seven toll facilities on behalf of the people of the state. All seven are all critical to Maryland's prosperity and mobility, but the crown jewel is the William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge - the Bay Bridge. Eight days ago, for the first time in the bridge's 56-year history, a vehicle broke through the walls of one of its spans and plunged into the water. The driver of the tractor-trailer, John Robert Short, died. Tens of thousands of Marylanders ended up stuck in traffic for hours on a busy Sunday.

A teenager died yesterday afternoon at a hospital shortly after he was struck by a tractor-trailer while riding a dirt bike on a street in the Mount Winans community in Southwest Baltimore, authorities said. About noon, the victim, between 16 and 19 years old, was riding the bike in the 2300 block of Hollins Ferry Road when he was struck by an 18-wheeler. The victim, whose name was not released, was not wearing a helmet and the rig ran over his head, authorities said. The youth was taken by a city Fire Department ambulance to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.

Carroll tractor accident kills man, 53 A 53-year-old Carroll County man was killed yesterday after the tractor he was operating rolled over, state police said. Eugene Earl Woodhouse of the 4600 block of Kridlers Schoolhouse Road, north of Manchester, was working in his yard when the accident occurred yesterday morning, police said. State troopers arrived shortly after 10 a.m. and found Woodhouse trapped under the farm tractor. He was dead by the time emergency crews arrived, police said.

The driver of a tractor-trailer hauling auto batteries escaped serious injury yesterday evening when the rig overturned and skidded at least 100 feet while heading north on the Jones Falls Expressway, spilling much of its cargo and fuel and disrupting traffic for several hours, authorities said. The accident happened about 6:15 p.m. near the Northern Parkway exit. Northbound traffic was prohibited from entering the expressway at its beginning at East Fayette Street to Northern Parkway for several hours, while workers from a contracting firm removed the batteries and placed them onto another tractor-trailer.

Two accidents early yesterday - one involving two cars in eastern Baltimore County and the other involving two tractor-trailers on the Beltway in Anne Arundel County - left three men dead and several others injured, authorities said. Two men died when a 2003 Lexus traveling west on Philadelphia Road in Rossville at a "high rate of speed" struck a 1990 Oldsmobile Ciera turning from Windsor Way shortly after 2 a.m., Baltimore County police said. The driver of the Ciera and a passenger in the Lexus were killed, and the four other people in the Lexus were injured, said Bill Toohey, a Baltimore County police spokesman.