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(CENTREVILLE, MD) April 13, 2011 – After a review of investigative information by the county state’s attorney, Maryland State Police have charged a driver in connection with yesterday’s Queen Anne’s County crash that sent 17 people to area hospitals.

The driver charged in the crash is identified as Carl Trenz Jr., 49, of the 100- block of Big Holly Court, in Stevensville, Maryland.   At about 1:00 p.m. today, a state trooper issued traffic citations to Trenz at his home.  He was charged with reckless driving, negligent driving, driver turning left failure to yield right of way to a vehicle approaching from the opposite direction, failure to yield right of way at a through highway, and failure to stop at an intersecting highway stop sign and yield the right of way.

Trenz was the driver of a 2010 Volkswagen Toureg that State Police investigators believe pulled from White Marsh Road shortly before 9:00 a.m. yesterday onto southbound Rt. 213 and into the path of a tour bus carrying kindergarten children and their parents.   Sixteen of the 35 children and adults on-board the bus were transported to hospitals for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.  Trenz was also transported to a hospital where he was treated and released.

Maryland State Police investigators reviewed evidence from the investigation this morning with Queen Anne’s County State’s Attorney Lance Richardson.  After a review of the evidence, State’s Attorney Richardson approved the motor vehicle charges that were issued to Trenz.

The investigation is continuing.

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Six people — including three children — were taken to the hospital Friday afternoon after a Prince George’s county fire truck en route to a fire crashed with a Jeep Liberty in the Bladensburg area, authorities said.

The Washington Post has the entire story:

via Post Now – Pr. George’s fire truck, jeep in accident.

A multi-vehicle crash caused significant delays on Interstate-83 near Cockeysville on Wednesday afternoon, according to the state highway administration and police.

via I-83 crash closes lanes, brings delays – baltimoresun.com.

One person is dead and at least one other person was wounded in a crash Tuesday night on the inner loop of the Capital Beltway, according to Maryland State Police and the Maryland State Highway Administration, who are investigating.

Get the ENTIRE story at Gazette.net:

via Overnight beltway crash near D’Arcy Road leaves one dead.

A proposal before the General Assembly would increase taxes on alcohol by a dime a drink, thereby raising about $216 million in new revenue.

via A dime a drink would help solve Maryland’s budget woes.

(There is some seriously fallacious logic in this whole sin-tax approach. First, Maryland is in this pinch because Mr. O’Malley and his tax-and-spend Democrats wouldn’t tighten the purse strings. It wasn’t until recently you actually heard them wince a little. Predictably a progressive will then search for new ways to tax in order increase spending. When roads were a priority Maryland went from perfectly adequate schools to building palatial schools.  Maryland created a millionaire’s tax that fell flat because the millionaire’s left the state taking jobs with them.

A more inexpensive approach to traffic safety would be to encourage Marylanders, like the Delegate behind license tag 82C, to drive safely. Look up 82C on Zapatag.com. We would save far more cash every year because residents wouldn’t be crashing into one another.

Annapolis ought to be thinking about ways to stop increasing the financial burden on its residents and taxpayers rather than finding new ways to take our money.  I don’t care what the tax is on.

I say we keep the weasels out of our wallets and start FOCUSING on the primary causes of collisions in this state – people.

This liquor tax idea is as dumb as reducing the brightness of highway lighting. Make unsafe driving easier and less bumpy on repaired roads or make any kind of driving really unsafe on highways where the lights have been dimmed. Lawmakers are looking for a way to obfuscate and make less painful the obvious cuts that MUST occur now due to bad financial stewardship by those in power. Sin taxes stir up the masses and distract them from what is really going on in Annapolis.

Every Marylander has it in their own power to help reduce state spending on emergency services, and who knows what else just by driving safely. You stop and think what a contribution that would be to the bottom line.

Tax and spend or crash and spend. It could be your choice.)

A Hagerstown man has been charged in connection with a three-vehicle crash in 2010 that killed a Delaware woman, but he was not charged in her death.

via Driver faces charges in fatal crash, but not in death of woman – Herald-Mail.

Authorities say Belovs’ rig had a falsified inspection sticker when its brakes failed. Belovs was convicted along with the truck’s owner and mechanic on state charges in Montgomery County.

via Trucker in fatal crash faces federal charges – timesherald.com.

OPELIKA, Ala. — A head-on crash on I-85 in Opelika killed three people, including a 27-year-old woman from the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

via Md. woman killed in Ala. crash | delawareonline.com | The News Journal.

The report concludes that Officer Thomas Portz Jr., 32, was most likely distracted by a film crew using the opposite lanes of U.S. 40 to record the final scene of an independent movie. The report, obtained under a Public Information Act request, says the officer was speeding at 71 mph (in a 50 mph zone) and was not wearing his seat belt.

via Baltimore Crime Beat: Officer who died in October crash distracted by film crew – Baltimore crime news: Police, courts and police stories in the city and central Maryland – baltimoresun.com.

Police blame “failure to control speed” for two crashes on Route 32, one right after the other and involving the same car.

via Patch on the Police Beat – Columbia, MD Patch.