Cars

A Hagerstown man was taken to Meritus Medical Center with life-threatening injuries Sunday morning after the car he was driving hit a two-lane stone arch bridge over Antietam Creek to Funkstown and took out a stretch of the bridge's stone wall, the Funkstown fire chief said. Joshua Harrison Gettleman, 24, was hurt in the crash, Washington County Sheriff Douglas W. Mullendore said. Mullendore said Gettleman was in critical condition Sunday. The Washington County Sheriff's Office responded to the accident, including the office's reconstruction team, said Fire Chief David “Buck” Fraley of the Funkstown Volunteer Fire Co. The two-lane bridge was closed from the time of the accident, shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday, until almost 6 a.m., said Fraley, who served as incident commander.

GREENCASTLE, Pa. - Greencastle police say a man who was arrested on a warrant earlier this month at a borough motel had failed to register as a sex offender. Michael L. Hovis, 29, of Greencastle, was charged with being a fugitive from justice and failure to register as a sex offender, according to a Greencastle Police Department news release. Police said they were called on the afternoon of Feb. 13 to respond to an unspecified complaint at the Castle Green Motel on East Baltimore Street.

A Chambersburg man charged in a 2011 traffic crash that claimed the life of a Shippensburg woman will not serve jail time following Wednesday's sentencing in Franklin County Court of Common Pleas. President Judge Douglas W. Herman sentenced Jeffrey David Davies, 22, to 72 months to be divided between wearing an electronic monitoring device and probation. Davies was charged with homicide by vehicle and aggravated assault in connection with the Jan. 4, 2011, crash that killed Kristi L. Myers, 18, of Shippensburg, Pa., Pennsylvania State Police said.

The Maryland Court of Special Appeals said in a 2011 judgment that a driver could not be charged for fleeing and eluding a law enforcement officer if that officer was in an unmarked car with lights or sirens. Del Neil Parrott, R-Washington, said Tuesday that he will file a bill that seeks to clarify the issue so that those fleeing such a vehicle can be criminally charged. Sen. Christopher Shank, R-Washington, has filed a similar bill in the State Senate. “If they (law enforcement officers)

Starting Wednesday, Jan. 23, Valley Mall will showcase the new 2013 vehicles. The mall-wide display of new cars, truck and SUVs will be on display through Monday, Feb. 4.    Spring soccer registration Hagerstown Area Youth Soccer League, or HAYSL, will hold registration for the spring soccer season Saturday, Jan. 26, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Food Court area at Valley Mall. In addition to HAYSL's core U5, U6, U8 boys and girls, U12 coed, U12 girls, U14 coed, U14 girls, U16 coed, U16 girls and U19 coed, the league will offer U10 boys and girls extended play, U12 girls and boys extended play, U14 boys and girls extended play and U19 girls programs.

A man was taken to Meritus Medical Center to be treated for non life-threatening injuries after he walked into the side of a car Tuesday afternoon at the intersection of Antietam Street and Burhans Boulevard, Hagerstown police said. The man, who identified himself as Jack Smith of Huntington, W.Va., walked into the side of a Chevrolet Cavalier shortly after 4 p.m., Lt. Chad Woodring said Wednesday morning. Woodring said Smith was at fault. Traffic was snarled in the area for a short time while rescue workers responded to the call.

No one was injured when a school bus carrying 48 children struck a car Tuesday afternoon near the intersection of Antietam Street and Summit Avenue in Hagerstown, a Washington County Public Schools official said. Randy Mills, assistant superintendent of transportation for Washington County Public Schools, said the bus was returning to Emma K. Doub Elementary School after a field trip to The Maryland Theatre in downtown Hagerstown when the accident occurred at about 2:30 p.m. “It was just like a bump,” Mills said.

A Virginia woman who was injured in a single-vehicle accident Saturday night on Interstate 81 near Hagerstown was listed in serious condition Monday morning at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, a hospital spokeswoman said. Kaithlin Andrina Woodard, 18, of New Market, Va., was taken to Meritus Medical Center, then flown to Shock Trauma to be treated for injuries she suffered when the Mitsubishi Eclipse that she was driving traveled onto the grassy shoulder of the interstate and flipped, according to Maryland State Police.

A car ended up in the C&O Canal on Monday night after the driver lost control of the vehicle, said Lt. Tom Newton, with the Washington County Sheriff's Office. Emergency crews checked out the car's driver, but the driver was not being taken to the hospital, emergency officials said. The one-vehicle accident in the 17100 block of Canal Road, which runs along the C&O Canal and Potomac River, was reported at 8:12 p.m. Monday, a 911 supervisor said. That stretch of Canal Road is about 1 3/4 mile south of the Potomac River bridge to Shepherdstown, W.Va.