Business Editor Of Baltimore Sun Killed In UPS Truck Accident

Reports from rural Baltimore County say that 48-year-old Tim Wheatley, the business editor of The Baltimore Sun was killed in a UPS truck accident while his 9-year-old daughter was seriously injured in the Maryland truck accident.

Wheatley was taking a left turn at an intersection in Dover, Maryland, on Monday morning when his car collided with the truck. The intersection's light was working at the time of the accident and it is unclear who had the right of way or if either vehicle ran a red light. The car was t-boned by the UPS truck, which struck the driver's side of Wheatley's car. His daughter was in the front passenger's seat.

Wheatley was declared dead at the scene of the Maryland truck accident while EMS workers rushed his daughter to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries. It is not known whether the UPS driver was injured in the truck accident.

Truck Crash Kills One, Shuts Down I-95

The Baltimore Sun reports that an afternoon truck accident shut down all four northbound lanes of I-95 as well as two southbound lanes for roughly five hours near Washington Boulevard.

According to the Maryland Transportation Authority Police, a couple driving an 18-wheeler lost control of their vehicle and jackknifed. The accident caused the big rig to catch fire and involved several other vehicles that were unable to avoid the wreckage. The fire took emergency workers 25 minutes to extinguish.

The woman, who was the passenger in the tractor-trailer, was trapped in the cab of the truck and died in the fire. The husband, who was the driver, managed to escape. The others involved in the crash suffered only minor injuries. Although there were some winter weather conditions, the actual cause of the accident is unknown, since there did not seem to be ice on the road at the time of the crash.

The truck was carrying frozen chicken products from a Purdue plant in Florida a the time of the accident.

Serious car accident on I-270

A trash hauling truck struck a passenger vehicle on I-270.  The two occupants of the vehicle, a man and a woman, were pinned under the back two wheels of the tractor trailor.

While they survived, both passengers of the vehicle sustained serious personal injuries, including neck and back injuries.  There were taken by amublance to the hospital.    In Montgomery County, Maryland, these victims will probably need the assistance of an experienced personal injury attorney, like us, to assist them when the trucking company says they were not hurt when the truck landed on top of them!