Pickup Truck

An 84-year-old Hagerstown woman was expected to be transferred to University of Maryland R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore on Sunday afternoon after being hit by a pickup truck earlier in the day, Hagerstown Police said. Yasuko Hanioka was hit by a Toyota pickup in front of the Alexander House around 10 a.m. Sunday, according to Washington County Emergency Services and Hagerstown Police. The Alexander House is at 7 E. Washington St. in downtown Hagerstown. She was taken to Washington County Hospital, but was to be transported via ambulance to Shock Trauma, Hagerstown Police Sgt. Eric Knode said.

A truck went onto the sidewalk and knocked over a street light on Summit Avenue in front of The Herald-Mail building Thursday afternoon, Officer Scott Leeney of the Hagerstown Police Department said. Nobody was injured. The accident happened when the truck's brakes were not working, and to avoid hitting the vehicle in front of it, the driver of the truck drove onto the sidewalk, hitting the light, Leeney said. Police were directing traffic going down Summit Avenue into The Herald-Mail parking lot Thursday afternoon at 3:35 p.m.   The accident was reported at 3:18 p.m., Leeney said.

A pickup truck landed on its side after a collision with a Washington County Public Works van on East Wilson Boulevard at Corbett Street on Friday morning, Officer Alderton of the Hagerstown Police Department said. Nobody was injured. The Ford pickup truck heading westbound on East Wilson Boulevard was attempting to turn left onto Corbett Street when it collided with the van heading eastbound on East Wilson Boulevard, Alderton said. Only one person was in each vehicle, Alderton said.

An accident was reported Friday afternoon in the 22000 block of Jefferson Boulevard, a dispatcher for Washington County Emergency Services said. Traffic was not affected by the accident, which was reported at 12:54 p.m. At 1:34 p.m., a Ford Explorer was off the road on the westbound side of Jefferson Boulevard with damage to the front and the driver's side tire. In front of the Explorer, facing the same direction, was a GMC Sierra pickup truck with damage to its back right side.

Waynesboro Police are investigating suspicious activity involving a man in a pickup truck Friday morning near Fairview Elementary School on West Third Street near the intersection of Fairview Avenue.  A white male between the ages of 50 and 60, with white curly hair, wearing a baseball hat and sunglasses, and driving an older model full-size black pickup truck with an orange stripe, waved money out the window of the truck at about 7:50 a.m. and asked a group of elementary age children if they wanted a dollar, a news release from the Waynesboro Police Department said.

Nobody was injured in an accident on the 17000 block of Garland Groh Boulevard on Wednesday morning, Officer TL Crouse of the Hagerstown Police Department said. The driver of a pickup truck heading northbound on Garland Groh Boulevard attempted to move from the left lane into the right lane and collided with a Jeep in the right lane, Crouse said. Both vehicles were able to be driven away from the scene Police responded to the accident at 8:50 a.m. The scene was cleared by 9:15 a.m. Traffic was not affected by the accident.

A Greencastle, Pa., man was killed Wednesday night when a pickup truck crashed into a utility pole along Pa. 75 (Fort Loudon Road) south of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania State Police said in a news release. Lloyd William Wolfe, 55, no address given, was pronounced dead at the scene by Franklin County Coroner Jeffrey Conner. Conner said in a news release that Wolfe's cause of death was multiple blunt force trauma. At about 10:05 p.m., a pickup truck traveling south on the 11000 block of Fort Loudon Road went off the southern berm of the road and struck a snow drift, according to the state police and Conner's releases.

MOUNT AIRY, Md. - A Michigan man was treated at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore and later released after his vehicle collided with a pickup truck on Friday, officials said.James Lodwick, 81, of Whitmore Lake, Mich., was westbound on Penn Shop Road when he entered the intersection of Md. 80 southwest of Mount Airy and was his vehicle was hit by a pickup truck towing a utility trailer, according a state police press release. Lodwick had to be extricated from his vehicle by rescue workers because he became trapped inside the overturned vehicle, police said.

A Smithsburg man who on Sunday was struck by a pickup truck in the parking lot of the Food Lion supermarket on Jefferson Boulevard remained in critical condition Tuesday morning at Meritus Medical Center east of Hagerstown, Maryland State Police Cpl. P.A. Martin said. George Bargmann, 58, of Smithsburg, was struck at about 12:30 p.m. in the Food Lion parking lot at 22401 Jefferson Blvd., according to a news release from state police. Troopers said Bargmann was unresponsive when they arrived.

Two people were arrested after about 10 gallons of gas were stolen Friday from lawn-mowing tractors at Jim's Small Engine Repair at 14623 Maugansville Road, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Office. The owner of the business walked around his property and noticed gas-siphoning equipment and four gas cans near some tractors, police said. Deputies responded to the business and observed a Ford Ranger pickup truck leaving the area, police said. Yellow plastic tubing, the same type found at the business, was visible in the truck, police said.

A pickup truck and a garage that appears to have been converted into a residence on Paden Avenue were destroyed by fire Sunday night, but it was unclear if the blaze was connected to a string of recent suspicious fires in the county, fire officials said. The fire also burned a large amount of brush around the building, and firefighters were concerned because there is another house behind the burned structure, said Dale Fishack of the Smithsburg Community Volunteer Fire Co. Fishack said it took 20 to 30 minutes to get the 8:32 p.m. fire under control.

A Boonsboro man who pleaded guilty to causing the death of another man in an alcohol-related traffic accident last year was released from prison Monday after serving fewer than two weeks of a four-year sentence. Bryan May, 45, of 103 Tiger Way, appeared before Judge Daniel P. Dwyer on Monday in Washington County Circuit Court for a sentence-modification hearing. The terms of May's release were agreed upon during a hearing in Circuit Court on March 19, when May pleaded guilty to one count each of criminal negligent manslaughter vehicle/vessel and driving/attempting to drive a vehicle while under the influence.

A 52-year-old Smithsburg man was found unresponsive and later pronounced dead at the scene of a vehicle crash early Tuesday. When Washington Township, Pa., police responded to 10952 Buchanan Trail East shortly after 1:45 a.m., they found a 2004 Chevrolet Colorado with its engine on and its tires spinning, according to Sgt. Vernon Ashway. A deputy coroner pronounced the driver dead, Ashway said. Police were withholding the man's name pending notification to his family. Ashway said the pickup truck was westbound on Pa. 16 when it veered right and departed the right side of the road near AC&T.

A man was in custody in Eastern Regional Jail early Tuesday after police pursuing a stolen pickup truck from Virginia into West Virginia brought the vehicle to a stop in Martinsburg, the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. Matthew Michael Cameron, no address given, was charged with fleeing while driving under the influence, receiving/transferring stolen property, bringing stolen property into the state and being a fugitive from justice, the release said. The West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority website gave Cameron's age as 22. Shortly after midnight, Berkeley County deputies were called to assist the Frederick County (Va.)

Police said a 22-year-old man who led them on a high-speed pursuit in Virginia and West Virginia late Monday night and early Tuesday morning later admitted that he was fleeing in a pickup truck that he stole from a hospital in Maryland. Matthew Michael Cameron, of no fixed address, was arraigned Tuesday by Berkeley County Magistrate Harry L. Snow on single felony counts of fleeing while driving under the influence, receiving/transferring stolen property and bringing stolen property into the state, according to police and court records.

Three Hagerstown men have been charged with burglarizing a home Wednesday in Manheim, Pa. Galen Scott Myers, 54, of 113 W. Church St., Wilbur Roy Tosten, 65, of 920 Mt. Aetna Road, and James Bradley Tosten Sr., 42, of 932 Pope Ave., were charged with one count each of burglary, criminal conspiracy to commit burglary, criminal trespass, criminal conspiracy to commit criminal trespass and theft by unlawful taking or disposition, according to a news...

A car struck a pickup truck, which forced the truck under a Washington County Public Schools bus on Lappans Road in the area of Lock Tender Lane, about three miles southeast of Williamsport, on Tuesday afternoon, according to Maryland State Police. There were 17 Springfield Middle School students and the driver on the bus but none of them was injured, officials said. Senior Trooper Andre Butler said the bus stopped on eastbound Lappans Road to let off some students. Morris Charles Fleming, 36, of Martinsburg, W.Va., came up behind the bus, did not stop, and his 2006 Subaru station wagon struck the back of the 2011 Toyota pickup truck being driven by Michael J. Adams, 55, of Harpers Ferry, W.Va., pushing Adams' vehicle into the bus, Butler said.

MERCERSBURG, Pa. - Three people face criminal charges in connection to the theft of a purse and wallet from a woman's pickup truck Jan. 13 in the Borough of Mercersburg. Mercersburg police said the victim's ATM card was used to make three withdrawals totaling $369 after it was stolen. Police said the thieves may have obtained the PIN for the account from a piece of paper in the victim's wallet. The woman parked her truck on the west side of Linden Avenue and later noticed the items missing, police said in a news release.