Cars

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.

Two children were taken to the hospital with minor injuries after they were struck by a vehicle Friday morning while crossing the road to catch a school bus, according to a news release from the Washington County Sheriff's Office. The accident took place on Broadfording Road west of Hagerstown shortly after 7:30 a.m., Deputy 1st Class Carly Hose said in the release. A school bus traveling westbound on Broadfording Road was stopped with its red lights activated when two boys, ages 10 and 5, crossed the eastbound lane of the road, the release said.

Three city residents were charged after a motorist was assaulted when he picked up the three individuals on North Burhans Boulevard Monday night, according to a Hagerstown Police Department spokesman. Dana Lee Andrews, 36, 237 N. Mulberry St., is charged with robbery/theft of a motor vehicle and numerous traffic violations, according to Sgt. Jim Robison. Nicole Sullivan, 23, of 140 W. Franklin St., and Darlene Sullivan, 46, of 107-A Summit Ave., are both charged with robbery and theft of a motor vehicle, Robison said.

A remembrance walk in memory of Tommy Kegarise, who died in a car crash Oct. 14 in West Virginia, will be held Sunday night in Hagerstown. The walk will begin at 6:45 p.m. at the main entrance to City Park along Virginia Avenue. It will continue to Rose Hill Cemetery on South Potomac Street. Donations will be collected to help the family with funeral expenses.

Two people were taken to the hospital Thursday afternoon after a car crashed into the porch of a house on South Potomac Street across from Bester Elementary School, Officer W.L. Hose of the Hagerstown Police Department said. A Mercury sedan went into the side of the front porch at 527 S. Potomac St. Both occupants of the car were taken to Meritus Medical Center east of Hagerstown, according to Hose. The crash damaged the porch and caused front-end damage to the car. Brenda Keier, 46, lives in the house and was home when the accident happened around 12:30 p.m. “I was sitting in my living room watching TV and I heard a loud boom,” she said.

A total of 40 incidents were reported on Washington County roadways Monday, including 10 personal-injury crashes, a county Emergency Services dispatcher said. The car accidents were mostly minor in nature, although some people were transported to hospitals for their injuries, the dispatcher said. The list of accidents, which included a dumptruck rollover crash on Interstate 70 near Hagerstown, was compiled since midnight Monday through about 9 p.m., the dispatcher said. Showers and windy conditions swept through the area early Monday afternoon, dropping about 0.15 inches of rain, according to local weather observer Greg Keefer's website, i4weather.net . - C.J. Lovelace

Hagerstown Police Department officers are reminding people to be respectful when playing Halloween tricks after pumpkins were used to damage cars in north Hagerstown over the weekend. Pumpkins were used to damage windshields and windows on cars in three incidents, according to a news release.   “While this may seem laughable to some, it causes an extensive amount of damage and is certainly illegal. The Hagerstown Police Department will aggressively investigate each case, exhausting all leads; and will seek prosecution where warranted,” the release said.

Police are investigating an incident of rock throwing that damaged a Franklin County woman's car, and possibly other vehicles. Terra A. Lorshbaugh, 44, of Mercersburg, Pa., told Pennsylvania State Police that she was driving east Sunday at 5:30 a.m. on Pa. 16 near Talhelm's Service Station west of Greencastle when she heard a loud noise. After pulling over, she noticed damage to her 2005 Kia. Later, she found a rock the size of an orange in her back seat. There was damage to her windshield and to the inside of her vehicle, she said in a phone interview.