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Harford County Sheriff's Office deputies have identified a man crushed underneath a Bobcat tractor in Joppa on Thursday. Johnathan David Maxwell, 29, of Watkinsville, Ga., was pronounced dead at the scene after he was caught below the hydraulic lift of his Bobcat skid loader. The man was attempting to make repairs to the equipment. Deputies and emergency workers responded to the call about noon in the 2400 block of Old Mountain Road Central.

A Baltimore man was killed on the inner loop of Interstate 695 in Pikesville early Friday morning after his vehicle collided with a tractor trailer, he was ejected and then struck by another vehicle, Maryland State Police said. A preliminary investigation showed at about 12:32 a.m., Jason Sukun Park was driving along the inner loop between Park Heights Avenue and Stevenson Road when his silver 2008 Honda veered into a tractor trailer driven by Brian David Olson, of California, police said.

A 59-year-old man was found dead, pinned underneath a tractor in Harford County Friday, state police said. John Salkowski was discovered by state troopers at about 7:30 p.m. in the 900 block of Pulaski Highway in Joppatowne, where police said he had been mowing grass. He was pronounced dead at the scene. His body was taken to the medical examiner's office in Baltimore to determine a cause of death. jkanderson@baltsun.com Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

Four firefighters and three civilians were injured early Wednesday morning when a tractor trailer and a fire engine collided and flipped over a dividing wall on Interstate 495 in Prince George's County, according to fire officials. The accident temporarily closed all lanes of the highway in both directions as emergency responders reached the scene and began treating the injured, and some lanes remained closed hours later. About 2:50 a.m., the fire engine was responding to another accident on the inner loop of the Capital Beltway just south of Route 50 when it was rear-ended by the tractor trailer, said Chief Alicia Francis, a Prince George's Fire Department spokeswoman.

Standing in the Westminster showroom of Bohn Pontiac yesterday morning, office manager Terry Davis could see the truck coming, but she could only stand and watch as it came barreling through the plate glass windows."

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.

A longtime Bethlehem Steel Corp. maintenance technician died Saturday after being struck by a tractor carrying steel coils between buildings at the Sparrows Point mill, Baltimore County fire officials reported.Larry E. Flower, 58, of Barrison Point Road in Essex, was dead at the scene at 4:16 p.m. after having been trapped under the tractor, fire officials said. G. Ted Baldwin, a company spokesman, said Mr. Flower had worked for the company for 38 years.The accident is being investigated by the company, the United Steelworkers union, the state medical examiner's office and the Maryland Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

A 52-year-old Montgomery County woman was killed when the car she was riding in was struck by a tractor-trailer, thrown in the air and smashed against a guardrail early Saturday on Interstate 70 in Howard County.Grace Raymond Guay of Germantown died at Frederick Memorial Hospital an hour after the accident, which occurred just east of the Carroll-Howard counties border.State police said the eastbound 1991 Chevrolet in which Ms. Guay was riding slowed in the center lane after being signaled by a disabled motorist in the westbound lane.

A motorist fell asleep and his pickup truck struck the rear of a tractor-trailer on Route 140 near Dede Road in Finksburg on Friday morning, state police said.The drivers of both trucks were treated at Carroll County General Hospital and released Friday.David Grant Hollinger, 26, of the 100 block of Pennsylvania Ave. in Westminster was driving a 1983 Ford Ranger pickup north on Baltimore Boulevard at 8:55 a.m. when he fell asleep and his truck hit the rear of the tractor-trailer, state police said.

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.

A man was critically injured in Laurel on Friday morning when his car veered off Interstate 95 and crashed into the rear of a parked tractor trailer, Maryland State Police said. According to State Police Sgt. Anthony Riley, the driver was traveling northbound when his vehicle left the road, drifted onto the shoulder and struck the tractor trailer, which was parked on the shoulder. The driver's vehicle became trapped underneath the tractor trailer; fire and rescue officials removed the motorist from the vehicle with the Jaws of Life hydraulic rescue tool, Riley said.

A tractor trailer overturned in a median on Interstate 695 near Hollins Ferry Road in Baltimore County about 10 p.m. Wednesday, shutting down lanes on both the inner and outer loops because of a fuel spill, officials said. The driver of the tractor trailer was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, according to the Maryland State Police. No other cars were involved. Several lanes surrounding the median were closed as hazardous materials teams tried to clean up the fuel. The road remained closed as of 11 p.m. Wednesday.

Interstate 83 in Baltimore County was cleared Tuesday morning after an accident occurred in the southbound lanes, past exit 24 to Belfast Road. Northbound lanes, near Mount Carmel Road, also appear to be cleared after a tractor trailer caught fire, according to the state highway administration. In Anne Arundel County, state highway officials reported a crash on Interstate 97 south at Maryland Route 32. MTA reported no major delays to MARC service.

A truck overturned in an accident involving an Anne Arundel County police vehicle on southbound Interstate 97 near Route 100 on Saturday sent both drivers to the hospital, officials said. No injuries were listed in the accident report, but the driver of the truck was taken to Baltimore Washington Medical Center and the police officer to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center as a precautionary measure, county police Lt. Glenn Shanahan said. The accident, which is under investigation, blocked several lanes of traffic for about an hour until 4 p.m., officials said.

The driver of an SUV was killed after the vehicle hit a tractor and trailer on I-95 near Aberdeen, Maryland State Police said. The accident happened around 8 a.m. Saturday and the ramp from I-95 to Route 22 was closed while troopers investigated. No other details about the incident were immediately available. Rain and fog could have contributed to several crashes in the Baltimore area that occurred over about three hours early Saturday, a spokeswoman with the State Highway Administration said.

Two people were killed on Route 75 in Frederick on Monday afternoon when a tractor trailer loaded with oranges overturned and collided with the pickup truck they were riding in, according to Maryland State Police. Three people were also injured, one of them critically. The deceased victims are identified as Hector N.C. Henriquez, 46, of Gaithersburg, Md., and Jose R. Diaz, 54, of Derwood, Md. Henriquez was the driver of a Ford F-450 truck. Diaz was a passenger in that truck and was sitting in the left rear seat.

Two Manassas, Va., women were seriously injured yesterday when their car went out of control, struck a tractor-trailer and became wedged under the rear of the trailer on northbound Interstate 95 in Elkridge, state police reported.Their 1976 Dodge Aspen was dragged 200 yards after it collided with the tractor-trailer near Route 100 and got caught under the trailer, police said.A heavy-duty wrecking vehicle was borrowed from an Elkridge towing business to lift the rear end of the trailer while a rescue vehicle pushed the smashed vehicle out from under it.Howard County firefighters extricated Joan Ann Lewis, 50, the driver of the Aspen, and took her by ambulance to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, said Battalion Chief Donald Howell of the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services.

A motorist was killed and four people were injured during the evening rush hour yesterday when a tractor-trailer rammed the back of a Honda Civic, causing it to explode in flames on the outer loop of the Baltimore Beltway near Interstate 70, according to the state police. The driver of the 1999 Honda - identified as Michael Scott Lindbergh, 37, of Rockville - was declared dead at the scene. The other victims were taken to Sinai Hospital and Northwest Medical Center. Their names and injuries were not available last night.

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.

Gregory Bryan Watkins of Fort Washington died late Thursday after the tractor trailer he was driving struck a barrier on Interstate 95 near Interstate 395 and burst into flames, shutting down the highway for more than seven hours, police said. The northbound lanes of I-95 reopened at 6:40 a.m., said Sgt. Jonathan Green of the Maryland Transportation Authority Police. Watkins, 34, was driving northbound on I-95 around 11 p.m. when he lost control and the truck struck a barrier on the right side of the road near the exit for I-395 north, Green said.