Hancock,PA : Maryland trooper among injured in I-68 crash on June, Thursday 8th 2017

Two people, including a Maryland State Police trooper, were injured late Thursday in a three-vehicle accident on Interstate 68 at Sideling Hill in Washington County, Maryland.

Sgt. L. Broadwater of the McHenry barracks was flown to R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore following the accident just before 11 p.m. on eastbound I-68 at the 74-mile marker, state police at the Hagerstown barracks said.

Broadwater's condition was not available Friday. He suffered back and neck injuries.

Broadwater was reportedly driving a marked police cruiser with emergency equipment escorting an oversized tractor-trailer when the cruiser was struck from behind by a Freightliner truck driven by Ronald Ovey Shambaugh of Cumberland.

The Shambaugh vehicle also hit a second escort vehicle, a 2003 Chevrolet Venture van driven by Philip K. Armbrecht of Evansville, Wisconsin, police said.

Armbrecht was transported by ambulance to War Memorial Hospital in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, for treatment of minor injuries.

Shambaugh was not transported to a hospital, according to a police report.

The state police crash team and the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division assisted with the investigation.

Police said charges are pending.


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Maryland trooper among injured in I-68 crash