Traffic Accidents

Two separate accidents in Anne Arundel County early Saturday morning sent two people to an area hospital with serious injuries, the Anne Arundel County Police Department said.  About 1:20 a.m. Saturday, a Lexus sedan stuck a Mercedes Benz on the northbound lanes of Ritchie Highway in Severna Park. The Lexus rolled over on its side and a passenger, Casey Brooke Barber, 22, of Pasadena, was thrown from the vehicle. Barber was not wearing a seat belt, police said. She was transported to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center where she was being treated for life-threatening injuries.  The Anne Arundel County Police Department said that speed, alcohol usage and failure to obey a traffic control device may have contributed to the crash.

Accidents were bogging down the Thursday morning commute in the city and in Baltimore County, police said. In the city, northbound traffic on Martin Luther King Boulevard was being detoured onto West Fayette Street after an accident between Fayette and Saratoga streets, and police were calling the traffic impact "severe. " Drivers were also being asked to steer clear of North Charles Street near Chestnut Avenue in Baltimore County, where a pedestrian was reported struck by a car Thursday morning, police said.

Five people, including a Charles County woman, her 6-year-old son and another child, were killed in traffic accidents over the weekend.Three deaths occurred in La Plata when three vehicles collided at U.S. 301 and Md. 225 shortly before 5:30 p.m. yesterday.Lt. William Saunders, of the Charles County Sheriff's Department, said a Mazda pickup truck driven by David R. Fenwick, 22, of Pomfret, went through a red light and struck a Nissan Sentra broadside.The Mazda rolled over at least once and struck a Jeep Cherokee stopped at a traffic signal.

An accident involving at least two vehicles closed West Nursery Road in both directions Thursday morning and caused injuries, according to Anne Arundel County Police. Officers were dispatched to the intersection of West Nursery and Winterson roads about 7:04 a.m. and found two or three vehicles had been involved in a collision, a police dispatcher said. The intersection is just south of Interstate 295 in the Linthicum Heights area north of Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

A 16-year-old Carney boy was killed early Saturday and a male pedestrian died on Reisterstown Road near Franklin Senior High School in unrelated Baltimore County traffic accidents yesterday.Police said the teen-ager was killed when the car in which he was riding went off Long Green Pike in Glen Arm just north of Factory Road about 12:10 a.m.The car, police said, hit an embankment, flew through the air and flipped over several times before coming to rest in a field.Keith Anthony Holmes, a junior at Loch Raven Senior High School who lived in the 2900 block of Andrea Ave. in Baltimore County, was pronounced dead at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center shortly after the accident, police said.

Unrelated traffic accidents yesterday on two interstates claimed the life of one Prince George's County man and critically injured another, state police said. And in Carroll County yesterday, a 41-year-old man was killed when the van he was driving crashed into an embankment in Taneytown, police said. Shortly before 6 a.m., Vincent Tyrone Woodland, 49, of Lanham stopped his pickup truck on southbound Interstate 495 near Upper Marlboro in Prince George's County after seeing a collision in fog. He was standing on the shoulder to warn oncoming motorists when a 2005 Chrysler sport utility vehicle struck the pickup and Woodland.

Four people were killed in traffic accidents over the weekend on Maryland roads, including a patient at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center who last night bolted from the emergency room and ran into nearby Charles Street, where he was struck by a car.Officials at the Towson hospital had no explanation why Thomas E. Spicer, 41, of Forest Hill, became agitated while awaiting admission for cardiac monitoring and ran out about 7 p.m. An official said he...

Two separate traffic accidents caused major delays in the Baltimore region early Wednesday morning — one affecting southbound traffic on Interstate 295 in Anne Arundel County and the other affecting southbound traffic on Interstate 795 in Baltimore County. An accident involving one vehicle on southbound Interstate 295 between Route 175 and Route 32 in Anne Arundel County stalled traffic headed toward Washington early Wednesday, closing multiple lanes for about 7 hours, according to U.S. Park Police.

A 7-month-old infant was killed and her mother and three sisters were injured when their car hit a concrete barrier and burst into flames in one of four fatal traffic accidents that took five lives in the Baltimore area yesterday.Police said a car driven by Nancy Lee Akers, 30, of Annapolis, hit and climbed a concrete barrier on Solomons Island Road in Anne Arundel County and was engulfed in flames after the gas tank ruptured.The driver's daughter, 7-month-old Kristie Akers, died at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Four people were killed in three separate early morning traffic accidents yesterday, including a man and woman whose vehicles collided on an icy stretch of road in Harford County.The Maryland State Police said that rain combined with cold air to produce icy road conditions in counties north and west of Baltimore during the early morning traffic rush. They said that in addition to the fatal collision in Harford County, many minor injury accidents resulted from the icy roads.In the Harford County crash, the police said Jennifer Lynn McDougall, 44, of the 1600 block of Poole Road, Darlington, was southbound on Route 136 just south of Street about 6:40 a.m. when she lost control of her 1986 Mercury Cougar.

Much of the predicted snowstorm that closed local schools and put highway crews on the alert Wednesday failed to materialize in Harford County. Predictions for snow accumulations fluctuated as the late-winter storm system, known as Winter Storm Saturn, approached the Mid-Atlantic region. The storm left much of the Eastern Seaboard with wet and heavy snow, power outages, flooding and major traffic accidents, although Maryland and the Washington, D.C., region escaped with mostly mixed rain and snow, and high winds, according to Weather.com.

The state Department of Transportation reported an accident at Interstate 695 at Exit 29B (MD 542/Loch Raven Boulevard) in Baltimore County around 9:30 a.m. Friday. No additional information was given. The Maryland Transit Administration reported minor delays on the light rail at 9:30 a.m. Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

An accident involving four vehicles on Interstate 695 near Camp Meade Road north of Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall Airport in Anne Arundel County had closed one inner loop lane and the righthand shoulder as of about 8 a.m. Tuesday, according to the Maryland Department of Transportation. The department had also earlier reported an accident on Interstate 95 at Exit 80 (MD 543/Creswell Road) around 7 a.m. Tuesday. No additional details were given. In Frederick County, a disabled vehicle on Interstate 70 at Exit 42 (MD 17/Myersville Road)

Two separate accidents in Anne Arundel County early Saturday morning sent two people to an area hospital with serious injuries, the Anne Arundel County Police Department said.  About 1:20 a.m. Saturday, a Lexus sedan stuck a Mercedes Benz on the northbound lanes of Ritchie Highway in Severna Park. The Lexus rolled over on its side and a passenger, Casey Brooke Barber, 22, of Pasadena, was thrown from the vehicle. Barber was not wearing a seat belt, police said. She was transported to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center where she was being treated for life-threatening injuries.  The Anne Arundel County Police Department said that speed, alcohol usage and failure to obey a traffic control device may have contributed to the crash.

As of 8 a.m., an accident was reported on Interstate 95 southbound side, prior to exit 67 to White Marsh Boulevard, in Baltimore County, according to the state highway administration. Officials reported a second accident on I-95, southbound, south of Caton Avenue in Baltimore.. The Maryland Transit Administration reported no major delays to MARC service.

An accident with injury on Interstate 95 at Exit 77 (MD 24/Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway) northbound in Harford County has the left, shoulder, right shoulder and through lanes closed at 8:42 a.m., the state Department of Transportation said on Thursday. DOT also reported an accident on U.S. 29 near Old Columbia Road in Howard County around 9 a.m., but offered no additional details. Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

A young woman nine months pregnant died, but her baby survived after a car mishap near the Maryland-Delaware border, and unrelated traffic accidents elsewhere killed two men in Maryland this weekend.Rescue workers kept 18-year-old Virginia Bodine alive while she was transported by ambulance to Kent General Hospital in Dover, Del., where a full-term baby boy was delivered, state police at Easton said.The baby was reported in serious condition yesterday in the hospital's maternity ward.Ms. Bodine was a passenger in a car driven by Amy Thomas, 19, who police said swerved to avoid hitting a deer on westbound Stafford Road, east of Route 454 in Marydel, Caroline County.