Tuesday, January 20, 2015

MD TROOPER, SECURITY TRUCK DRIVER INJURED IN I-70 CRASH. AS THE TROOPER WAS STILL OUTSIDE HIS CRUISER, A BRINKS SECURITY TRUCK HEADED EAST SWERVED, LOST CONTROL AND STRUCK THE GUARDRAIL, THE TROOPER’S CRUISER AND A STOPPED HYUNDAI







MD TROOPER, SECURITY TRUCK DRIVER INJURED IN I-70 CRASH.  AS THE TROOPER WAS STILL OUTSIDE HIS CRUISER, A BRINKS SECURITY TRUCK HEADED EAST SWERVED, LOST CONTROL AND STRUCK THE GUARDRAIL, THE TROOPER’S CRUISER AND A STOPPED HYUNDAI




Tuesday, January 20, 2015 8:37 am

State police identified a state trooper and an armored truck driver injured in a crash on eastbound I-70 near the Washington County line Monday afternoon.

Master Trooper Lester Leggett was walking back to his patrol cruiser along the right shoulder of eastbound I-70 just west of Md. 17 after wrapping up a traffic stop on a 2004 Hyundai Santa Fe around 2 p.m., according to a state police press. Leggett's cruiser was parked directly behind the Hyundai, the release states.

As Leggett was still outside his cruiser, a Brinks security truck headed east swerved, lost control and struck the guardrail, Leggett's cruiser and the Hyundai, according to the release.

Leggett was knocked to the ground and taken to the Frederick Memorial Hospital with minor injuries, while the truck driver, James Kenneth Williams III, of the 1200 block of Damsel Road in Essex, Maryland, was flown to the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore for treatment, the release states.

The driver of the Hyundai, Kelly Hepburn, of the 1100 block North Franklin Street in Wilmington, Delaware, was not injured, police said.

The release did not cite any further details regarding any charges or what caused the truck to lose control, but an officer at the scene, Trooper First Class Granville Fairbanks, said the truck swerved to avoid striking a vehicle in front of it that had slammed on its brakes.