Monday, December 31, 2012
Anne Arundel County police are executing a plan designed to decrease traffic injuries and fatalities.
Police across the state of Maryland are looking to take drunk drivers off the road as people celebrate the New Year. The holiday is annually one of the worst days of the year for drunk driving arrests. The effort comes less than a month after a hit-and-run accident on I-97 that killed a 50-year-old Millersville man. Wilmer R. Borgmann III, was ejected from his truck after a crash and was then struck by a vehicle that left the scene, according to police. Police are still searching for the driver. This year, Anne Arundel County had a devastating stretch of crashes that left five pedestrians dead and two more seriously injured in 40 days. Police located the drivers in two of these six incidents: Brooklyn Park Hit-and-Run Critically Injures …
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Several Severna Park residents said they experienced traffic delays Tuesday morning as a result of an earlier fatal hit-and-run in Millersville.
A fatal hit-and-run in Millersville early Tuesday caused traffic delays for many area residents on their morning commute. According to police, a truck hit a guardrail and overturned on I-97 near Route 32 and Benfield Boulevard around 3 a.m. The driver and a passenger were both thrown from the vehicle. The passenger was then struck and killed by another vehicle, which fled the scene. Investigators still had sections of I-97 closed Tuesday morning during rush hour, and several Severna Park residents reported delays in their commute to work. Lauri Ladd commented on Severna Park Patch’s Facebook page that her commute to Waugh Chapel was extra long. “Took me 1 hour and 15 minutes to get from Waugh Chapel to Severna Park,” Ladd wrote. “That's …
Friday, July 13, 2012
The driver of the vehicle that struck 17-year-old Kara Micciche as she was crossing Ritchie Highway in July 2011 was sentenced this week in court for another incident.
CORRECTION: This story was updated from a previous version to correct that Goldman was only sentenced this week in the December 2011 hit and run incident where no one was injured. Patch regrets the error. UPDATE (4:00 p.m.)—An Arnold man was sentenced this week for fleeing the scene of an accident in December 2011. William Keith Goldman of Arnold was involved in a hit and run in December 2011, but no one was injured. In July 2011, he was the driver of a car that killed a Broadneck High School student. Seventeen-year-old Kara Micciche of Pasadena died July 13, 2011, after being struck by Goldman's vehicle on Ritchie Highway. Micciche and 19-year-old Sean Snyder of Severna Park were trying to cross Ritchie Highway near Earleigh Heights Road…
Keith B.
7:51 pm on Tuesday, December 11, 2012
I got off I-97, I shot over to US1 south at 295 to 32 east and into Annapolis in 40 min more ›