Utility Pole

A 47-year-old Joppa resident died Wednesday night in a motorcycle accident on Old York Road, according to the Baltimore County police department. Larry Stephen Hicks Jr., of the 1900 block of Mountain Road in Joppa, was pronounced dead at the scene. According to the police department, officers responded around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday to a report of a motorcycle accident at Old York Road and Openshaw Road. Investigators determined that the 2008 Harley Davidson motorcycle operated by Hicks was traveling eastbound on Old York Road when it left the roadway and struck a utility pole.

A 47-year-old Joppa resident died Wednesday night in a motorcycle accident on Old York Road, according to the Baltimore County police department. Larry Stephen Hicks Jr., of the 1900 block of Mountain Road in Joppa, was pronounced dead at the scene. According to the police department, officers responded around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday to a report of a motorcycle accident at Old York Road and Openshaw Road. Investigators determined that the 2008 Harley Davidson motorcycle operated by Hicks was traveling eastbound on Old York Road when it left the roadway and struck a utility pole.

Two people were killed last night when the vehicle they were in struck a utility pole near Sparrows Point Country Club in southeastern Baltimore County, police said. Both were pronounced dead at the scene. Their names were withheld pending notification of family members, police said. Police said the vehicle was traveling in the 8600 block of Wise Ave. shortly after 10 p.m. when for an unknown reason it left the road near Country Club Road and crashed into a utility pole. The impact, authorities said, caused one of the occupants to be thrown from the vehicle, and the vehicle was torn apart after striking the pole.

Nature presents many truisms. Water doesn't flow uphill. Bears eat what they want, where they want. There's no such thing as a squirrel-proof bird feeder. If you need evidence of the latter, simply type the words "rube, Goldberg, squirrel" into your favorite Internet search engine and enjoy the videos of bright-eyed, bushy-tailed creatures making their way through the most mindless of obstacle courses to get to the nuts. While water doesn't flow uphill for reasons dictated by the laws of physics and we humans are inclined to impart human qualities such as persistence and ingenuity to squirrels and bears that defeat bird-feeders and garbage cans, the reason squirrels and bears win in the end is really more of a force of nature than any mental qualities they possess.

A 30-year-old Baltimore man died yesterday after losing control of his motorcycle and striking a wooden utility pole, city police said.Joseph Earnest Lewis Jr. of the 700 block of Mount Holly Street was traveling east about 8 p.m. in the 3500 block of West Caton Avenue when he lost control of his 1982 Yamaha motorcycle and struck a light pole, police said. He was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead at 8:38 p.m.

When Phillip Reyes bought his home in the Orr Acres community 18 months ago, he figured that whoever owned the utility pole on his property would come and take it away.He was wrong.Mr. Reyes said the Polm Co., which developed Orr Acres, left the pole standing by his house, at Fort Smallwood and Whites Cove roads. Mr. Reyes also said the pole, once connected to a trailer that was on his property, is keeping him from building a fence around his house.The pole looks like an ordinary telephone pole and has a metal cable hanging to the ground.

A section of Route 97 north in Silver Run was closed for five and a half hours early Friday after a Pennsylvania woman apparently fell asleep at the wheel of her vehicle and struck a utility pole, said state police at the Westminster barracks.The area between Mayberry and Stone roads was closed at 3: 45 a.m. for the pole and wires to be replaced and reopened at 9: 15 a.m.Police said the 1994 Toyota four-wheel-drive vehicle was traveling north when the driver apparently fell asleep and struck the pole.

A car severed a utility pole at one of the busiest intersections in Annapolis just before dawn yesterday, sending thick, black power lines snaking across the streets and creating a traffic jam that nearly brought the city to a halt."

A 20-year old Lutherville man was found dead in his overturned Jeep Cherokee near Cockeysville early Saturday morning, Baltimore County police said. The man, Timothy Christensen, was driving eastbound on Sweet Air Road when his Jeep apparently went out of control, hit a utility pole and turned over, said Cpl. John Wachter, a Baltimore County Police spokesman. No other vehicles or people were involved in the accident, he said. annie.linskey@baltsun.com Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

The following timeline, assembled from Sun clips, Anne Arundel County Police records and SafeRoadMaps (an aggregator and cartographer of federal crash data), shows summaries of fatal crashes on Mountain Road in Pasadena. It is not necessarily a complete record. Readers who know of other fatal incidents on the road can email details to michael.dresser@baltsun.com . Supporting documents may be requested. 2011 Oct. 16: JB Cobb, 74, of Pasadena died when his Dodge Ram truck crashed into two other vehicles at Magothy Beach Road.

The driver of a car that crashed into a utility pole early Saturday in Shady Side has died, Anne Arundel County police said Monday afternoon. Terry Elvin Potts, 26, of the 100 block of Southbridge Drive in Glen Burnie, was the driver whose Saturn crashed on Shady Side Drive near the intersection with Shadyrest Road shortly before 3 a.m. Saturday. He had been taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Police said they did not know why the car left the roadway. The preliminary investigation indicated that speed may have contributed to the accident, police said.

One Baltimore County man was killed and two others were severely injured in a single-car crash in Middle River, police said Monday. John Rich Aull Jr., 27, was declared dead about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, authorities said. The driver, Nicholas Alexander Long, 22, was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital, officials said. A hospital spokeswoman said that by Monday afternoon Long was not a patient at the hospital. Police said they believe alcohol contributed to the accident. The second passenger, Damion Wagner, whose age was not known by police, was also severely injured in the accident and taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center.

A man and a woman were critically injured in a single-vehicle accident just before midnight Thursday in Pasadena, according to Anne Arundel County police. The driver, identified as Rhonda Lee Kavanagh, 42, of Glen Burnie, and her passenger, John Wayne Lucia III, 24, also of Glen Burnie, had to be extricated by firefighters after the 2008 Mini Cooper hit a utility pole off the west side of Solley Road near Powhatan Beach Road. Kavanagh and Lucia were taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.

A 38-year-old Forest Hill man died Tuesday night in a motorcycle crash, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office. David Allen Butler of the 2600 block of Bailey Road was riding a 2005 Suzuki motorcycle eastbound in the 1400 block of W. Jarrettsville Road when he ran off the side at a curve, went up an embankment and struck a utility pole, according to sheriff's office. Investigators believe Butler had been speeding, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Butler was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident, but the sheriff's office said he was not in possession of a valid driver's license.

A Marriottsville man was killed Thursday night after his car swerved off the road and struck a utility pole in the West Friendship section of Howard County, police said. The driver, Kenneth John Dunsmore, 26, of the 12000 block of Old Frederick Road, lost control of his car at about 7:50 p.m. as he was traveling east on Frederick Road near Fairgrounds Road, police said. The car, a 2001 Mercedes S430, veered off the right side of the road, striking a pole and brick pillar, police said.

Baltimore police were faced with a traffic tie-up this morning in North Baltimore after a vehicle struck a utility pole and knocked it over, blocking the intersection of Northern Parkway and Greenspring Avenue during a rainy rush hour. A city police spokeswoman said officers had blocked off the intersection because wires from the pole were strewn across the road. The accident caused a power outage in the area, she said. There were no estimates for how long the intersection would be blocked.