Trailer

A Columbia man was killed Friday night when the car he was driving collided with a tractor-trailer on U.S. 1 in Jessup, Howard County police said yesterday.The accident occurred at 6: 48 p.m., when a 1999 Kenworth truck pulling a flatbed trailer south on U.S. 1 started turning left on Assateague Avenue, police said.A northbound Plymouth Horizon struck the right front of the turning truck, according to the police department's Traffic Enforcement Section.The driver of the Plymouth, identified by police as Van G. Robinson Jr., 41, of Columbia, died at the scene.

A Baltimore man was killed early today when the car he was driving ran under a tractor-trailer in a southbound lane of Interstate 83 in Timonium, said State Police at the Golden Ring barracks.The victim was Robert C. Brandt, 31, of the 3900 block of Woodlea Ave., the police said.A spokeswoman for the Baltimore County Fire Department said Brandt's car slammed into the rear of the tractor-trailer while both vehicles were traveling south between Timonium Road and the Beltway shortly after 4:30 a.m.Rescue units from the Texas fire station responded and firefighters had to use cutting tools to free Brandt from the wrecked car. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

A man was was fatally injured yesterday morning when his car crossed the center lines of U.S. 1 in Elkridge and struck a tractor-trailer head-on, Howard County police said.The victim, whose name was not released because relatives had not been notified, was pronounced dead at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore shortly after his arrival.He was not wearing a seat belt, police said.The driver of the tractor-trailer, Clessie Worley, 49, of the 4200 block of Jerusalem Road in Marianna, Fla., and his passenger were not injured, police said.

A young Howard County woman was killed yesterday afternoon when the car she was driving was struck by a tractor-trailer on U.S. 1 in Jessup, county police said. Holly Atkins, 18, of the 8300 block of Granville Road in Jessup was driving a 1993 Pontiac Grand Prix east on Lincoln Drive near the community of Cedars about 4:40 p.m. and halted for a stop sign at the intersection with the 8000 block of Washington Blvd. (U.S. 1), police said. Atkins then entered the boulevard and was attempting to turn north when a southbound 1996 International tractor-trailer struck the driver's side of the car, police said.

Wade Hawthorne Gowl, owner of a modular building company and a Jarrettsville horse farm, died Tuesday of complications of Alzheimer's disease at the Continuum Care nursing home in Sykesville. He was 86. The youngest of 13 children, Mr. Gowl was raised in South Baltimore and became a dental technician before founding the Atlantic Trailer Corp. in 1955. Though the Middle River firm went bankrupt in 1978, Mr. Gowl restarted it as Porta-Space Inc. in Shrewsbury, Pa. The companies produced trailers for schools needing temporary classroom, barracks used by troops in Saudi Arabia and modular units that could be stacked atop hospitals wanting to expand.

A state medical examiner's autopsy report yesterday confirmed that a 71-year-old Fort Washington man who was killed in an accident on I-95 in Savage Friday afternoon suffered a heart attack when a trailer hitch crashed through his windshield.Meanwhile, state police investigators reviewing the death of Richard Arthur Bauer, of the 9500 block of Potomac Drive, say that the 10-pound chunk of metal debris smashed through the victim's windshield after being struck by another vehicle.Mr. Bauer died when his southbound vehicle careened off the roadway, crossed the median and struck a vehicle in the northbound lane, said Mike McKelvin, a state police spokesman.

Firefighters have not determined the cause of a fire that killed a 72-year-old Edgewood woman in her trailer home early Thursday morning, said W. Faron Taylor, deputy state fire marshal. Mary Ada Owens of 1900 block of Chipper Drive died in the fire, Taylor said. The victim's son, Kelly Stewart Owens, who was living in the house at the time, escaped. He is now in the custody of the Harford County sheriff's office, which discovered he was wanted for failing to appear in court on a charge of violating his probation.