Truck Driver

Edward Davis, a retired truck driver and caterer, died Feb. 16 of a heart attack at his West Baltimore home. He was 81. Mr. Davis, who was born and raised in Baltimore, was a 1946 graduate of Frederick Douglass High School. He worked as a truck driver for many years for Davidson Transfer. He retired in 1983 and had been an active member of Teamsters Local 557. During the 1970s and early 1980s, Mr. Davis owned and operated a Baltimore catering firm. Mr. Davis, who enjoyed cooking, liked entertaining family and friends at backyard cookouts.

Three people were killed Friday after a car lost control on a curve and crashed into a milk truck in Phoenix, Baltimore County police said. A Volkswagen Jetta was traveling northbound on Jarrettsville Pike when it crossed the center line into the path of the truck, police said. The Jetta overturned on its left side. The truck struck a tree and remained upright, but its tanker turned on its left side, police said. The crash occurred at 6:09 a.m. in the 12600 block of Jarrettsville Pike, just north of the intersection with Dulaney Valley Road.

Maryland State Police have arrested a tractor-trailer driver for pointing a fake gun at a dump truck driver Friday on the Baltimore Beltway. Troopers arrested the driver, Johnathan Maniah Adams, of Fort Worth, Texas. Adams was being held at the Baltimore County jail. - Associated Press

A New York woman died Monday, when the van she was driving sideswiped a trash truck and struck a tree in the Severn area of Anne Arundel County. Shirley Walker-Lloyd, 76, of West Islip, was driving north at 11:07 a.m. on Quarterfield Road near Myers Drive, when her van began swerving. She crossed the center line, hit the trash truck, swerved back to the north lane and ultimately drove off the road and struck a tree, police said. She was pronounced dead at the scene. She was not wearing a seatbelt, police said.

Investigators looking into a light rail accident in Cockeysville said Wednesday that they expect to file charges against the driver of a tractor-trailer that crossed the train's path. The truck driver was identified by police as Mark Szurek, 53, who was behind the wheel of a 2007 Volvo cab pulling a Wabash trailer filled with plastic bottles when the crash occurred Tuesday morning. Szurek was driving for John W. Ritter Trucking Inc., based in Laurel. A preliminary investigation showed that Szurek drove into the path of the light rail train at a crossing that had a traffic signal, according to a Baltimore County police spokesman, Cpl. Michael Hill.

Donald E. Davis Sr., a retired truck driver and a former Baltimore resident, died May 31 of a stroke at a medical center in Cookeville, Tenn. He was 80. Born and raised on Nanticoke Street in Pigtown, Mr. Davis graduated in 1949 from Southern High School. In 1951, he joined the Navy, where he served aboard the dock landing ship USS Marcos as a seaman until being discharged in 1955. Mr. Davis worked as a truck driver for Wilkins Coffee in Baltimore from 1955 until the company's closing in 1970.

A Pennsylvania truck driver died Monday afternoon after his vehicle jumped a curb and struck several trees on Northern Parkway west of Greenspring Avenue, a Baltimore Police spokesman said. Charles Bergholtz, 63, of Bensalem, Pa. was pronounced dead at 4:22 p.m. at Sinai Hospital, said the spokesman, Agent Donny Moses. Witnesses said Bergholtz had been driving a Volvo truck eastbound in the 2600 block of Northern Parkway when the vehicle began swerving and ultimately drove over a curb, striking several trees in a wooded area before it came to a stop, Moses said.

100 Years Ago Trusted home "Mrs. Frances Fogarty of N. Calvert St. Baltimore, visited her grandmother Mrs. John Cole during the past week. Mrs. Charles G. Summers Sr. have closed their summer home, "Trusty Friend Farms" and are occupying their apartments at Bristol, Eutaw Place, Baltimore. " 75 Years Ago Falling chivalry A national news section brief in the Times : "A brave truck driver, name unknown, saw a lady with a difficult name, Mrs. Anastasia Adeuszkuus, hanging from the ledge of a 2nd story in Jersey City.

Relatives of a truck driver killed in an August 2008 Bay Bridge crash are suing the state of Maryland as well as a teenage driver. The $7 million suit filed in June originally named the driver whose car crossed the center line before the crash that killed 57-year-old John Short of Willards. Short died after his tractor trailer crashed over the side of the bridge and into the bay. The suit was amended Friday to add the state and the state transportation authority, claiming bridge barriers could have been maintained better to prevent the truck from going into the bay. The suit also claims two-way traffic on the bridge at the time of the crash is inherently dangerous and has led to numerous other fatalities.

Investigators looking into a light-rail accident in Cockeysville released the names Wednesday of the three drivers involved, and said charges were pending against the operator of the tractor-trailer that crossed the train's path. The truck driver in Tuesday morning's crash was identified as Mark Szurek, 53, who was behind the wheel of a 2007 Volvo cab pulling a Wabash trailer filled with plastic bottles. Szurek was driving for John W. Ritter Trucking Inc., based in Laurel. A preliminary investigation showed that Szurek drove into the path of the light-rail train at a signaled crossing, according to a Baltimore County police spokesman, Cpl. Michael Hill.

Joseph F. Radomsky Jr., a retired truck driver and a sports fan, died Sunday of cancer at Franklin Woods Center in White Marsh. The Essex resident was 72. Mr. Radomsky was born in Baltimore and raised in Highlandtown. He attended city public schools and briefly served in the Navy in the mid-1950s. A longtime local truck driver, Mr. Radomsky worked for Anchor Trucking and later USF Red Star until his 2001 retirement. He was an active member of Teamsters Local No. 557. He was a Ravens and Orioles fan and had been a former longtime member of the Little Beavers Club, a Highlandtown social club.

A truck driver who killed a Stevenson University professor and seriously injured her two sons in a 2010 crash on the Ohio Turnpike was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison. Douglas Bouch, 49, of Greenville, Pa., pleaded guilty in county court to aggravated vehicular homicide in the death of Susan Slattery, 47, who was returning to Cockeysville with her sons after visiting relatives. Police say Bouch fell asleep and his triple-tractor trailer smashed into Slattery's car and careened into five other vehicles just outside Cleveland.

I'm a Baltimore Country employee. I have worked for the county for 36 years. I drive a school bus and plan to retire in 2013 at the age of 62 if all goes well. I belong to the retirement system. Of course, I do not make the pay that the Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz and two former councilmen receive ("A pension windfall," Dec. 18). I work had for my pay and a truck driver hauling beer makes more than I do, only I have a greater responsibility. Hopefully, my retirement check and Social Security check will keep me above water.

James Floyd Jackson, a retired truck driver and Baltimore church musician, died Nov. 16 of a heart attack at Church of God by Faith while preparing to play for evening services. The Loch Raven resident was 74. Mr. Jackson was born in Baltimore and raised in Franklin Square. After graduating from Frederick Douglass High School in 1955, he enlisted in the Air Force, from which he was honorably discharged in 1959. A long-distance truck driver, Mr. Jackson retired in the 1980s.

A 66-year-old Prince George's County man was killed in a multiple-vehicle crash Monday along Route 100 near Quarterfield Road in Pasadena. John Frederick Cornelius of Fort Washington died at University of Maryland Shock Trauma, where he was taken shortly after the 7:12 p.m. accident. Speed and aggressive driving on the part of Zachary Adam Covington, 25, of Springfield, Va., were contributing factors in the crash, investigators said. Charges have not been filed. Covington, who was driving a BMW, had cut off several vehicles as he merged onto the highway, police said.

One of two men who killed a 72-year-old customer during a holdup at a Waverly carryout in April 2010 was sentenced Wednesday to 50 years in prison, according to the Baltimore state's attorney's office. Michael Hunter, 20, of the 300 block of E. Belvedere Ave. was convicted in September of first-degree murder, three counts of using a handgun in the commission of a crime and armed robbery. Baltimore Circuit Judge Lawrence P. Fletcher-Hill handed down a 70-year sentence but suspended 20 years.

The family of a Baltimore cyclist killed last year in a collision with a tanker truck on Maryland Avenue has settled a $5 million lawsuit against the driver and his employer, the family's attorney said. John R. "Jack" Yates, 67, was riding behind the truck Aug. 4, 2009, when the vehicle made a right turn onto Lafayette Avenue in the Charles North neighborhood and Yates got caught in its rear wheels, according to city police. The Yates family settled last week with the tanker's driver and his employer, Potts & Callahan Inc., days before the lawsuit was set to go to trial on Monday, said the Yates' attorney, Steven D. Silverman.

A 67-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene of a car accident Tuesday morning in Glen Burnie, after the car she was driving and a truck collided, Anne Arundel County police said. Police identified her as Wilda Scott of the 400 block of Ayrlawn Drive in Millersville. The other driver, Young Jea Kim, 52, of the 7800 block of Tall Pines Court in Glen Burnie, was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center with serious injuries, police said. Police said the early investigation of the crash that occurred around 11:11 a.m. indicates that Kim was driving a Chevrolet truck south on Crain Highway.

100 Years Ago Trusted home "Mrs. Frances Fogarty of N. Calvert St. Baltimore, visited her grandmother Mrs. John Cole during the past week. Mrs. Charles G. Summers Sr. have closed their summer home, "Trusty Friend Farms" and are occupying their apartments at Bristol, Eutaw Place, Baltimore. " 75 Years Ago Falling chivalry A national news section brief in the Times : "A brave truck driver, name unknown, saw a lady with a difficult name, Mrs. Anastasia Adeuszkuus, hanging from the ledge of a 2nd story in Jersey City.