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Top Cop In Maryland Driving With BAC Three Times Legal Limit Charged After Virginia Crash: PD
The chief of police at Prince George’s Community College is facing serious charges after allegedly causing a crash in Virginia while driving intoxicated with a BAC more than triple the legal limit.
Derek Myers, 55, of Burke, was arrested and charged with DUI maiming after a two-vehicle crash on Wednesday, Dec. 6, in Fair Lakes, according to detectives from the Fairfax County Police Department's Crash Reconstruction Unit.
The crash happened around 7:30 p.m. at the intersection of Random Hills Road and Fairfax Hills Way, police say, when Myers, driving a Hyundai Elantra, lost control of his v…
UMES Student From DC Critically Injured In Head-On Wrong-Way Crash: Police
Two University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) students were killed, and two others suffered critical injuries after being struck head-on by a suspected intoxicated wrong-way driver in Delaware.
Delaware State Police identified 22-year-old Eric Staley, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, and Willow Grove, Pennsylvania resident Makayla Belton, 18, as the two who were killed in a fatal crash on Sunday in Seaford involving a Honda Pilot and Nissan Rogue.
Two others, the 22-year-old driver from DC, and a rear passenger, an 18-year-old from Bethesda, where also hospitalized with serious injuries, …
Pug Killed, Passenger Dies Days After Alcohol-Fueled Crash In Northern VA: Cops
A woman has died at an area hospital nearly two weeks after a crash in Prince William County caused by a driver believed to have been drinking, police said.
Manassas resident Jessica Lynn Randall, 32, died on Friday, April 26 in connection with a crash on Monday, April 15 at 2:30 p.m., county police said.
Randall was a passenger in a 1993 Buick Roadmaster driven by a 46-year-old Manassas man heading east on Yates Ford Road, police said. The driver entered the intersection of Evans Ford Road, into the path of a 2012 Dodge Ram 2500, police said.
Yates Ford Road near Evans Ford Ro…
Arlington Driver, 23, Gets Manslaughter For Deadly Bailey's Crossroads Crash
A 23-year-old man has been charged with manslaughter in a deadly crash that happened last year in Fairfax County, police announced.
Isai Jimenez Paz, of Arlington, was driving a Toyota GR86 at a high speed westbound on Leesburg Pike in Bailey's Crossroads around 7 p.m. on Feb. 16, Fairfax County police said.
Another vehicle, a Toyota Corolla, tried turn left onto a service road near South Jefferson Street from the eastbound lane of Leesburg Pike it was struck by Paz, police said.
Each vehicle had two occupants: All four were taken to nearby hospitals for medical attention, and on Feb. 21, …
Matthew Settle Dies In Bicycle Crash
Virginia State Police are seeking information in a fatal bicycle crash.
Matthew M. Settle, 66, of. Strasburg, was killed in the collision involving a 1999 Dodge Ram in Shenandoah County, authorities said.
It happened around 3:20 p.m. on the 2200 block on Junction Road Sunday, March 24, police said.
The driver of the Dodge, Noah, B. Clem, 19, of Strasburg, and an adult passenger were not injured in the crash. Both were wearing seatbelts.
Anyone with information is encouraged to call Virginia State Trooper A. Ehrhard at 540-459-5141 or email questions@vsp.virginia.gov.
8 Amish Residents From VA Dead In Fiery Wisconsin Tractor-Trailer Crash
A 6-month-old baby was among eight Virginia residents killed in a fiery crash involving a tractor trailer Friday, March 8 in Wisconsin, authorities said.
The Clark County Sherif's Office identified the eight Virginia victims as:
James K. McCoy (driver), 46; Linda Byler, 44; Lydia Byler, 24; Orla Schrock 24; Ellen Schrock, 23; Delila Schrock, 21; Suzanna Hertzler, 18, and the 6-month-old baby.
Multiple news outlets including ABC affiliate WISN said the eight Virginia victims were members of an Amish community in Virginia.
The semi tractor-trailer, operated by 51-year-old Daniel G. Liddicoa…
