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A little after 5:30 Thursday on a clear last June, a car with two young 16-year-old jumped into an illegal parking tractor-trailer on the shoulder Route 50, on land of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.

There was no Bremsspur marks.

A few hours later, there was a chain reaction in Nancy’s Pawn door to Waldorf, a time of the incident, as she sat on a breakfast of frozen waffles and “The View”.

A priest and a policeman standing in front of him with their hats in their hands.

“Ms. Pion,” she said, “We are sorry …”

“It is not acceptable, Dustin,” said Nancy Pion firmly to their youngest son. “It is a ring of combat tournament, Ocean City.”

But the men of his son product portfolio. Nancy Pion called her husband, Larry, and told him to come home to Labour, just now.

For 11 months, a period in the summer of 2001 until summer 2002, that the scene was all too familiar in southern Maryland four separate car accidents claimed the lives of six High School - athletes, a graduate of a recently, and three other youths. In a quiet suburb of the town, where families come for their children, these families instead bury:

• On 26 July 2001, Scott Hoppe, 16, an age and an increase in footballing Chopticon High School in Morganza, and Joseph Marcheggiani, 18, former football standout and Lacrosse, studies at Chopticon months, were killed , As Hoppe has lost control of his 1994 Chevrolet Cavalier in a sudden downpour.

A third passenger, aged 17, Steve Terrell, survived.

• On January 27, 2002, Erin and sisters Joshua Davis, a cheerleader for 16 years and 15 years, Junior Varsity football players Lackey High in Indian Head, died in an accident on Highway 1 in Fort Belvoir, where his family had friends go and watch a play-NFL game.

A third teenager, 15, died of an accident, and 17 years, had survived the driving. The names of two brothers and sisters too, have been by the police because of the indictment against the second alternative, a juvenile crime.

• On 11 March 2002, Joseph Wade, 16, a football player Lackey, and Eric Graham, 18, former student Lackey, died, as Graham has lost control of his Cavalier in 1997 and met a tree on Highway 227 in the vicinity of Pomfret. Marques Fincher, 18, a track athlete, Lackey is a graduate of the previous year, after surviving ejected and thrown about 50 metres from the car.

• On 13 June 2002, Dustin Pion, 16, a star of West Lake Ringer High in Waldorf, and Tiffany Wells, 16, Thomas Stone High in Waldorf, died as Wells, behind the wheel of Pion — 1984 Datsun 300ZX because it led to the house of Ocean City, click on the illegal parking of tractor-trailer at full speed shortly after crossing the Bay Bridge. First police speculation that Wells has fallen Asleep at the Wheel, but the official report of the police to the conclusion that only the car on the truck “unknown reasons”. The driver of the tractor and trailer, Jose Luis Wagner of Chesapeake, Va., was cited for unlawfully parking along the shoulder in an area clearly marked “No parking.”

A review of police records and interviews with family members ready to discuss killed few links between the accidents. Without having alcohol or drugs. All deceased persons, with the exception of Marcheggiani, was in the back seat, wearing seat belts. What is certain: All athletes were competing in southern Maryland Athletic Conference and all were affected by chance, terrible fate.

“There is nothing more devastating,” said Dave Anderson, Lackey’s sports director for the past 23 years. “While the potential - what could it be? We will never know. ”

Not far from Lackey, there is a tree along Highway 227, was a page of a fatal accident in May 1999. Two miles on the road, by the Mattawoman Creek, another tree is gouged five centimetres deep with a bumper cars herds scattered around the trunk. A Mylar balloon deflation, reads, “We Love You” depends on one of its subsidiaries.

A quarter mile ahead on the same street, there is a huge oak, it is reported that nearly 12 centimeters from the edge of the highway, with a bark all gouged out, on the one hand, the culmination of a front bumper.

Based on this tree a small wooden cross broken in two, the vertical axis standing - RIP MEMORY love, “top to bottom - and the horizontal, with” Eric “written on one end and” Joe “On the other, on the ground, collecting snow.

It is a Tazmanian Devil puppet lies in the grass. It is a crown of trees and wilting roses on its base. It is a machine card printed in the bouquet of roses.

“Even if you away,” he said, “nothing can get rid of memories / That is what we use to us strong / That’s what we do not forget, Joe.”

This was here that Joseph and Eric Graham Wade died, and where Marques Fincher, threw the car, suffered a bruised lung, but survived. According to a police report, Mr. Graham has lost control of the car, led a portion of the roadway, then overcorrected, which helps turn the car on the highway, where he met the tree on the passenger side.

For Lackey, it was the second such tragedy to strike within one month and a half. Six weeks earlier, Erin and Joshua Davis were killed, with a third teenager unidentifizierte at Fort Belvoir.

After Lackey’s Anderson, was rarely the school year, which is not at least one dead students, mostly in car accidents. “I ask our young drivers are they now have enough experience to speed traffic flow outside today? I do not know the answer.

With its corridors flooded sadness advisor for the second time in six weeks, students Lackey’s. A group of student leaders, began spreading a petition demanding that the driver training classes in school. In Maryland, Garrett County offers such courses as part of its regular curriculum, three other departments as their offer school.

Lackey’s petition was sent by hundreds of students, teachers and community members, before he went to Charles County Board of Education.

“They have made many proposals,” said Kathy Levanduski, the board’s chair. “But in the end, the astronomical cost is a factor, and it was the extraction of schools because of costs.”

Andrew Krajewski, director of driver training on the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration, such petition, said his office to perform an effort quite regularly, when there is a rash of fatal accidents in a defined area. Krajewski office focuses on improving the quality of education in private schools transport.

In the case of drivers-ed was in public schools, students in general, the price of one half - about 15 weeks. In response to one hour per day of school, class is currently working 75 hours or 21 / 2 times, which is now needed.

“Education is just one step,” said Krajewski. “The second stage of conduct is much more convenient under surveillance. And thirdly, you need under parental supervision. Parents should be aware that control of the vehicle.”

Some experts say drivers often Rookie poor control of the exercise of their vehicles.

“The young novice drivers,” said Robert Sternberg, professor of psychology and education at Yale. “And there are some mistakes that you feel like experts, even if it build. One thing is egocentricity. Another reason is that they do not believe that the long-term consequences of what they do as such as drinking and driving. Another is omniscience, and I quote: They think they know everything.

“If you have children, you have, thanks to him. They are not old enough to know how they did not know. Then there’s the sense of invulnerability. Bad things go to other people, but not by themselves . ”

Athletes may also be vulnerable, “said Sternberg,” because the same things that gives them a good athlete - that aggressiveness and willingness to take risks - can they in danger in other areas. If you combine their status as beginners, and these errors, plus a young person’s passion already at risk, which is where the end with an extra vulnerability to accidents.

Traffic accidents are the leading cause of death among people of Maryland, at the age of 15 to 20 The same is true nationally. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, 5000 young people from driving in automatic mode age die each year from accidents in Germany.

The search for explanations can be maddening. It can force, as a father Larry Pion, for long solitary hours drive from his house on the spot fault six times in six months. It can be done, Nancy Pion, as stringent with their children than other children she has called “The Warden” itself debt Dustin death. It can convince the legislature to propose new legislation and psychologists, new theories.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the murder is a leading cause of traumatic death among new and expectant mothers, with higher risks for women are below the age of 20 or black. It was the CDC’s first national look at pregnancy and homicide.

The study, which was published yesterday, and appears in the March issue of the American Journal of Public Health, documents, 617 slaughter from 1991 to 1999. This figure is significantly understates real, because many countries lack access to reliable methods for the continuation of these deaths, “said the researcher.

The CDC study was praised by several experts on public health knowledge, a phenomenon of view. Based on data from over 30 countries, the CDC, that the murder second, after auto accidents, trauma deaths of pregnant women and new mothers. The study has cast a glance at “injury deaths” and no medical report on causes of death.

“I think this is a very important first step,” said Jacquelyn Campbell, studies, home assassination of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. She said, more research is needed to truly understand how it is widespread And … How do better intervene to prevent these deaths.

In the report of the CDC, researchers recommended that governments and local health authorities are taking bold measures to improve the way they identify maternal killings, linking information autopsy records, police reports and records of birth and death, for example, a clearer portrait of victims and offenders. Only a few States.

“Homicide is a leading cause of death among women during pregnancy or within one year after pregnancy,” said Jeani Chang, lead author of the study CDC.

Many of the CDC findings were comparable to those of The Washington Post a year verifying the pregnancy and homicide, published in December. In the wake of the slaughter of deaths, medical examiner records, reports and interviews, the document identifies maternal 1367 murders since 1990, as a whole is also short, because if many cases often remain untapped .

The CDC study found that homicide accounted for 31 percent of deaths among mothers injuries. The car accidents accounted for 44 per cent, while other unintentional injuries to 13 per cent and the suicide of 10 per cent.

The analysis showed black women had a maternal homicide risk about seven times higher than white women. The inequality was even more pronounced at the age of 25 to 29, with black women in this age group about 11 times more likely than white women to kill.

The authors point out that age was over race, with the risk of homicide higher percentage of women under 20, if all races were combined.

Among other differences, married women are less at risk than single women. The women received no prenatal assistance had an increased risk of manslaughter as those who did it.

The study found that 57 percent of kindergarten have been replaced by murders shootings, stabbings in second place with nearly 18 per cent.

The study by the CDC said it was “important, but difficult to assess,” if women in general have an increased risk of death during pregnancy and the postpartum period, which covers 12 months under the programme public health definition of “pregnancy-associated” deaths. He noted that the murder is a leading cause of death among black women and youth, regardless of maternal status.

With 617 cases, the CDC calculated a ratio of 1.7 murders per 100000 live births, but Chang, the author, the report is recognized Statement Under, because killings are so evil.

In Maryland, researchers found 11.5 murders per 100000 live births. In two other government studies, the figures were much higher than the number of CDC, said Isabelle Horon, co-author of a Maryland study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2001.

Horon said the CDC study may be a reference to the problem, but I think it’s still a disservice to this problem, because it suggests the magnitude of the problem is less than what it is. “

Novice young drivers would be prescribed by the use of mobile phones and the implementation of young passengers, according to legislation approved yesterday by the Maryland House of Delegates, in response to the recent rash of teens killed in the Washington area.

In the path through the house, a package of five bills deleted, what is said footnotes are their biggest obstacle. Only minor differences between the House, Senate and governor must be resolved for the actions right.

Washington teen at least 19 dead on the field of transport since September helped convert many enemies within the House who, for years is not desirable teen new limits on driving.

“It was a good time to say:” Enough, “said Del. Adrienne A. Mandel (D-Montgomery), limiting passengers Bill’s sponsor. “We have enough dead on the road.”

Supporters of the law have said that the State must be in conformity with the growing number of States, a limited number of passengers for young teenage pilot. The District Court and Virginia, in collaboration with 23 other countries have such laws.

The house of four accounts approved unanimously yesterday, and the fifth - Restricting passengers - increased from 104 to 30 for the veto proof majority of passengers surprised supporters and restrictions suggests, they said that the bill is to force. The Senate has a similar bill.

“We are at the beginning of the homestretch,” said Del. William A. Bron Rott (D-Montgomery).

After two Bills passed yesterday, young provisional certificates would be required, the youth’s family non-passengers in the first five months of 18-month provisional period, and would be prohibited, with mobile phones while driving, except in emergencies, while any time.

Young people can be provisional licences in Maryland, after 16 years and one month. In the district, age is 16 years, six months and Virginia, 16 years, three months.

The other provisional bills increase penalties for drivers against the laws of the safety belt or night curfews and the necessary training for young people to obtain full driving privileges.

Senate versions of mobile phones and ban on training requirements are not really a vote, but said the trailers, they expect that it happens in this room.

Dir Robert L. Ehrlich (R) supports the objectives of invoices. A spokesman, Henry Fawell said the governor is “holding an open mind, but the decision” until the bills reach his desk.

Arturo Betancourt, whose daughter Alicia was killed in a crash-September 24, called the legislation “a very good start” was too long to wait.

“If legislators to include, based on the laws on science and not on popularity contests, we have a better legislation,” he said after a press conference yesterday to James Hubert Blake High School in Silver Spring to unveil a Web site for research and other information on young descendants.

Blake, several students, some weeping openly during the media event, “said Alicia’s perspective of his death had changed.

“It is a positive thing, even if not the most popular,” said Alan Blake sophomore Brylawski 15 “But printing Peer-not too close, that the loss of Klassenkameradin how one feels.”

Some parents said the action is not far enough.

“I think, a driving licence should be something children deserve, after college diploma,” said Patricia Sullivan, a mother of two teenagers from Mount Rainier. “I prefer a high school and then focus on ability to drive. ”

Highway safety experts say that the distraction is one of the main causes of traffic accidents during adolescence and age of passenger restrictions are the best legislative tool to bring down youth unemployment killed.

According to the Arlington-based Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the risk of a fall of 16 - or 17 years, chauffeur Double with two colleagues in the vehicle and four beds with three or more.

From 16 teens killed in auto crashes in Montgomery County since early 2004, seven trips with other youth, according to police statistics Counties.

In Virginia, the youngest driver, it is not allowed more than one passenger under the age of 18 for the first year after obtaining a license. After a year, the limit is increased to three passengers aged under 18 years, until the driver himself 18 The passenger restrictions do not apply to family members.

In the district, novice drivers, it is prohibited to the implementation of passengers in the first six months, a provisional licence, unless a driver at least 21 After six months, teen-pilot can make two people, including the restriction if it had cancelled 18 family members from the obligation to register.

The passenger restriction bill has been controversial in Maryland, the General Assembly, particularly the house, because opponents see it as an injustice, poor students, rural and depend on friends for transportation. The Senate has less resistance.

Assembly members approved yesterday the passenger limitation of a bill debate.

“As good intentions as accounting, it is to prohibit children carpool,” said Del. Robert A. Zirkin (D-Baltimore County). “What this fact, a good education is to legislate, and I do not think we should do. ”

The bill Zirkin survived an attempt by a long list of exceptions, an amendment, that the signatories of “poison pill.” The House amendment passed Tuesday by a huge margin.

The margin in the vote yesterday was even greater, perhaps emotional extended by law testimony of several donors guests, ladies and gentlemen, to save teen lives to vote for the bill.

DEL. Ruth M. Kirk (D-Baltimore) during the debate on the floor tell the story of 1968 death of her son 17 years.

“I am the only one in this house of the Assembly of Delegates, which lost a son in a car accident,” said Kirk, Welling their eyes. “Even if our children tell us that we do not want them to do something, they are still …. I tell you this bill.

We live in southern Maryland and have enrolled our son in a train driver, the College of Southern Maryland in La Plata.

It costs roughly the same ($ 270), like other driving schools in the region, but we feel confident it is broader, because it is part of the increase in Learning Center. In addition, parents are required to guide class, ie, I will be able to personal appreciation of some courses and their trainers.

If you would like more information, call the College of driver training office at 301-934-7870 or send an e-mail to marybethm@csmd.edu.

We continue with our son and try to teach them the basics of driving, but the finding that in its age, as a typical teenager, he could be heard over a certified instructor, even if the lesson is the same . I never thought that driving with him would be such a challenge for both of us.

I will keep you abreast through the programme in the MSC.

Peggy Holt

Hughesville

Please do so. Readers tell me that drivers-ed taught at an educational institution is usually better than one that is covered by a commercial provider.

Mr Dr Still:

I read your columns on the latest drivers and youth councils to end the senseless death of this young driver.

I agree that they do not have enough training. I feel vocational training should be back in classrooms at school, but not only for schoolchildren B-or better. When I was at school, everyone had to take and pass-ed pilot or she is not a diploma. In addition, a certificate was necessary for the state test, you get your driver’s license.

I was surprised, I was en route by a day Waldorf 45 km / h, if a driving school Driving makes me spend at least 55 mph. In the vehicle was a teacher and three students.

Put training in the school system. Parents, talk with your child before leaving the house, set and enforce the rules. Certainly not, put them loose in something that you yourself would have problems handling. Let’s face it, adults have problems while driving some of these big vehicles.

I graduated in 1957 from a high school in Nebraska. Let us face it, there were fewer motorists on the roads but during the six years prior to my study, there was only a coincidence that three students killed. The causes were alcohol and speed.

Today, it seems, a teenager to death in a car accident is a daily event.

Erik W. Hayes told friends and family, he joined the American army to help save money for his future. And last week, that the future seemed more secure: he sent an e-mail from Iraq friends he wanted to be an ambulance, when he still in Maryland.

But instead of saving lives, 24 years, a specialist in the second soldier was from Maryland to die in Iraq last week, as a palliative to the bomb exploded near his vehicle in Muqdadiyah, on Monday, Defense Department officials said. Two days earlier, Marine Cpl. Kirk Bosselmann, Dickerson in Montgomery County, was killed while in the fight against insurgents around Fallujah.

Hayes grew up in Thurmont and Harney, Md., and attended a small Christian school on the border of Pennsylvania, his grandmother said.

Margaret M. Hayes, 84, remembered a nice quiet boy had worked near dairy farms, but was unable to save enough money for school. Thus, he recruited into the army.

“He wanted money for school,” she said. “He could not do without a good job.”

Hayes has shown a love for animals and trade with others during his years of life in Word Academy, teachers recalled Cheryl Turner. He graduated in 1998, the only student in the higher class.

Turner, the wife of the school’s largest, said the young man was in his house all week, pulling, the year of books and remember Hayes. The family has CARE packages of cookies on Hayes when he was stationed north of Baghdad, said Turner.

The soldier by e-mail to ask the family to get information on the training of ambulances, because the son of Turner is a paramedic in Montgomery County.

“He was someone who wanted the definition of his life for human beings,” said Turner. “It was just a young man very well thought on coming back and is an ambulance.

Hayes of 2001, his grandmother said, and was stationed in Germany, before deploying to Iraq about a year ago. It was until 2 Battalion, 2 Infantry Regiment of the Infantry Division 1.

Military officials told the family, an explosion killed Hayes as a new on the basis of a mission, “said Margaret Hayes.

Two years ago, brother Hayes, now 20, suffered brain damage in a car accident. He can not walk or talk and is confined to a hospital in Hagerstown, Md., said the grandmother.

“Tragedy, click the Hayes few times, a family,” she said.

The countdown began at midnight in Baltimore’s University of Maryland Hospital. At this time, doctors have the delicate task of eliminating the heart and lungs of 32 years of a victim of a car accident, says brain dead several hours earlier. Work quickly, they remain the bodies cooled to 45 degrees F and transports in the city Johns Hopkins Hospital. Clinton House, 28, a refrigeration engineer, whose actions have been devastated cystic fibrosis, the cargo was his apartment and was in the wheels of the operations room. He had waited a year at this time. In a room of ten meters, doctors prepare John Couch, 38, Yardley, Pennsylvania, was the penalty, advanced cardiovascular disease.

During the next seven hours, the two teams to work quickly, the elimination of the house emergency zones lungs and the heart of its operation, to leave, surgeon Bruce Reitz later than “very dramatic empty” in his chest. The doctors had decided it was easier and safer to replace both the heart and lungs, lung is not alone. What Reitz team began implementing a heart and lungs the victim, House’s heart was crashed in the coming space where the surgeon William Baumgartner sutured it piggyback on his sofa in Distress heart. With 10 doctors’m exhausted their tasks and made American Medical history. It was the first time the USA, only one had given her heart, in which what is considered a “donor domino” Organ of the exchange. Officials in Harefield Hospital in London last week, revealed that Dr. Magdi Yacoub had actually the first, with dominoes lies in the approach April.

The weekend the two patients were seated in chairs, at home and had even enjoyed his first post-op Hamburger. House was happy to serve as a donor and the recipient body, said his mother Joyce Plesic. “He said, if someone could help, it should help someone else.” Divan wife Peggy said she was pleased that her husband might have a chance for the man who gave his heart. Doctors say that Get-together may occur this week.

For the home, the transplant was a last resort in a fight for life with cystic fibrosis. FC victims produce little thick, sticky and other secretions of mucus that block normal affect lung function and digestion. Babies born with cystic fibrosis died in early infancy, but today more than half of its first 20 years, thanks to a series of medicines, control lung infections, digestion and limit secretions. Still, few survive beyond the age of 30 House lung were only gone, “said his father, and for a period of three years, he had an oxygen tank, then it is installed l air conditioning.

LIABILITY collection over the limit, if a person buys liability insurance, the company agreed to pay distinctions age barrage against him - but only up to the amount of its policy.

The rest comes from his own pocket.

Recently, however, the state courts of the USA have ordered insurance companies to pay much more than the politics of nominal value. In a remarkable case of California, had issued to a company that a policy with a limit of $ 10000 was for the payment of more than $ 150000.

Iffy opportunities. It is a conflict of interest between the company and the insured both represented by counsel, the same whose loyalty can be shared. Example: An accident victims complain about $ 20000, but is limited to policy-$ 10000. In this case, the company can be a good reason to refuse the offer. A jury could find the policyholder, so that the company would have nothing to pay, or the decision could be lower prices, saving money for the company. But even if the insured loses, and that the jury awards the full $ 20000, most, that the company will focus on Shell-out remains that the $ 10000 in politics. So why not the possibility of a trial period?

The crazy response can be guaranteed, why not: because he has to pay an additional $ 10000, whereas if the company had opted for decanted, it would have to pay little or nothing at all.

In many of these cases were provided complain to recover by insurance companies, and they have to win. The Maryland Court of Appeals recently upheld a judgement on the grounds that the insurance company involved, State Farm Mutual had “an obligation not only to exercise good faith, but the use of diligence on the research interests of the insured. State Farm had three occasions, a car accident in a total volume, unless the final judgement of the jury, although his lawyer said that the company’s chances of winning something in court and was iffy had actually planned size if the judgement is rendered by the jury for him.

A simple rule. In the case of CA, Security Insurance Co. of New Haven had refused the right to a tenant, fell by a wooden staircase defective. The victim was later developed a severe psychosis. THE EURO, had to pay insurance as a result of the refusal of society, was forced to sell his property. It was financial resources, subsequently lost their health and have attempted suicide. She cites security, and the California Supreme Court, finally, a distinction has confirmed that in the excesses they had to pay on the frontier insurance, damages for mental suffering she had endured. The entire tab on security, including interest, was $ 164453, at the same time, the company has had for $ 9000.

Diplomats are diplomats and their people are sacred and must repair, if it offended. There were cases in this country, where one of them, arrested and fined for driving too fast, has objections against the State Department and obtained an apology and reimbursement of the fine. But Albert C. Ritchie Governor of Maryland is a man back. In Baltimore the car of Count Gian Franco Della Porta, attaché of the Embassy of Italy, ran in the car, a citizen, a sign. A policeman came. Count M. Marks paid $ 30 and abflog. So he joined a protest to the State Department, requested an apology and money, the assertion that he was extorted. Mr. Kellogg wrote to Mr. Ritchie and M. Ritchie wrote and said that the state was the police officer acted with tact and as an arbitrator in settling claims.

Maryland is not an apology, governor of Ritchie continues:

“I, of course, respond to any request entirely on diplomatic usage, and if you tell me that diplomatic usage, in a case of this type asked me to accept, Count Porta’s version of the event, Despite the statement by the State against police officers and three witnesses reliable, so I am very happy to reconsider the issue of returning to the Porta Graf $ 30. These witnesses indicate he pays through the ‘compensation for the damage he did. “