Glen Burnie, MD : Four people killed and six injured in three-car crash in Calvert County on Saturday October 31 2015
Anne Arundel County police continued to investigate a three-car crash in Glen Burnie that killed two drivers and sent six others to area hospitals Halloween night.
And in Calvert County a woman was charged with driving under the influence Saturday afternoon after her car hit and killed a man and a woman riding a tandem bicycle near Chesapeake Beach.
The three-car crash, which police believe involved alcohol and excess speed, happened at 10:30 p.m. on Solley Road near Chestnut Springs Lane.
Initial reports indicate a car traveling southbound on Solley Road passed over the center line on a curve in the road, then hit an oncoming northbound car head-on. The first car flipped onto its roof and slid about 100 yards down the roadway, police said.
A third car traveling behind the second car was sideswiped by the first car and ran into the second car, police said. Those two cars were found near the original impact area. The third car had run into a tree, and the second car, its front end demolished, came to rest in the roadway with only its back end off the road.
The drivers of the first two cars were pronounced dead at the scene. Passengers in those cars were rushed to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.
Occupants of the third car suffered less serious injuries and one was taken to Baltimore-Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie, officials said.
Police officers said they noticed the odor of alcohol around the wreckage of the first two cars, but will not be able to determine a direct impact of alcohol until after autopsies by the medical examiner are completed.
The two fatalities were Donna Thayer-Fitzgerald, 47, of Long Cove Road in Glen Burnie, the driver of the first car, a 2005 Nissan Maxima; and Joshua Pack, 18, of 225th Street in Pasadena, in the second car, a 2003 Nissan Maxima.
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Four killed, six hospitalized following weekend wrecks