Police probe fatal crash
involving stolen cruiser
Prince George’s County police are investigating an incident in which a man apparently stole a police vehicle, crashed it and died on the scene.
Officers came across debris from a wreck near Croom and Baden Naylor roads at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday. Officers located an injured male nearby, who jumped into a police cruiser and eventually crashed into a tree.
The collision caused the police car to burst into flames. The man, identified as Kenneth Ray Taylor, 28, was pronounced dead on the scene.
Toddler critically
injured in accident
A 3-year-old girl was critically injured in a single-car accident at the interchange between Interstates 70 and 81 in Hagerstown, state police said. The child was thrown from the vehicle during the incident, which occurred around 5:40 p.m. Sunday on westbound I-70 in the lanes that feed into I-81. The accident was not weather-related, according to police, and no one else was seriously hurt.
Fairfax police
look into fatal crash
Police are investigating a fatal crash that occurred in Mason Neck late Friday.
Lauren Eliabeth Whitestone, of Woodbridge, crashed into a dump truck while driving on Richmond Highway just south of Mims Street. She was pronounced dead on the scene.
The driver of the dump truck, 44, was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Speed and alcohol may have been factors in the crash, police said.
Pickup kills pedestrian
during snowstorm
Authorities in Hagerstown say a pedestrian was struck and killed by a pickup truck during Saturday afternoon’s snowstorm.
The crash happened shortly after noon on U.S. Route 40 near Mount Aetna Road.
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office says the truck hit the pedestrian in the travel lanes, then slid into the median and struck a tree.
The name of the victim was not immediately released. – AP
– Compiled by David Sherfinski and Dee Ann Divis
The Associated Press contributed to this report
