An old Ford LTD Crown Victoria came barreling across the asphalt at high speed as reporters and state officials waited in the parking lot of a Northwest Baltimore shopping center for Gov. Martin O?Malley to arrive for a news conference.

The car roared by, tore up an embankment and went airborne as it crossed the six lanes of Wabash Avenue, ripping a hole in an iron fence and then smashing through a chain-link fence as it finally perched on the electrified third rail at the Baltimore Metro maintenance center.

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