UPDATE – Northbound traffic is being routed to the shoulder, use caution in the area.
MECHANICSVILLE, Md. – On December 21, 2022 at approximately 7:16 a.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to a serious motor vehicle accident on Three Notch Road in the area of Braxton Way.
Crews arrived and found a rear-end collision involving a tractor-trailer and a large van overturned on its side in the roadway with one reportedly trapped with injuries. Firefighters extricated the patient from the van and turned them over to EMS for care and assessment.
The driver of the tractor-trailer reported no injuries.
EMS requested a MEDEVAC for the patient. Firefighters established a landing zone on Three Notch Road for Maryland State Police Trooper 7.
MSP Trooper 7 arrived at 7:49 a.m. and transported the patient to Captial Regional Trauma Center.
Northbound Three Notch Road has been shut down for an extended period of time.
We will continue to provide updates as they become available.
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This, unfortunately, does not surprise me those logging trucks pull out in front of vehicles all the time at that intersection without looking who’s coming or going. Sad.
True but it’s still mostly preventable and the responsibility of the oncoming drivers to look far enough ahead and take the proper evasive action. From the van damage, it looks like the van was really moving fast.
So, are you saying that the driver of the van never saw a 40-ton truck pulling out in front of him?
How do you figure that’s what happened here since the log truck in the picture is clearly going northbound prior to the intersection?
I wouldn’t say it was the Log truck drivers fault, the van ran into the back of it. Failure to control vehicle speed as the police would say. Must have been speeding to do that much damage?
Speed Cameras anonymous. Let’s get ‘em bro!!!!
So the truck driver was able to pull all the way out onto Three Notch Rd before he was struck. The van drove into the REAR of the truck. But it is the truck driver’s fault?
The truck had time to pull all the way out into the roadway before the van driver took any evasive action. The van hit the truck from the REAR, not anywhere along the side, the REAR. But it is the truck driver’s fault?
It’s called failure to yield the right of way there genius, but had there been speed cameras they would be able to figure out that the van was doing 70+ but according to you speed cameras don’t work
Wow…what a mess that post is. First, please go read my post. If the van drove into the back of the truck, which it clearly did based on the damage to the van and the truck, the van driver was at fault. It is not failure to yield the right of way. Second, your speed camera comment is just dumb. A camera that determines the speed someone was going when a wreck occurred is, by definition, useless in preventing the accident.
First, I did read your post, the truck is still at fault for failing to yield right of way, the van was already traveling on the road that the truck pulled onto
Second of all, because there is no credible evidence for your theory had there been a speed camera in that area and gotten the vans speed it would have clearly shown that the van was over the speed limit by at least 20 mph, do you have any idea how hard you would have to hit that truck to do that damage?
I never said the camera would prevent the accident, that’s your comment, however it could have been used to reverse the charges or used as evidence as this will definitely go to court
I’m pretty sure the van was jumping lane like most of the cars do just couldn’t cut back in in time
The truck pulled all the way out in the road. The van hit it so hard it knocked the tandems loose. That little van had to have been flying to do that kind of damage. Every time I’m in that area of Three Knoch road people are speeding. Yes Anonymous, speed camaras will help in that area.
To do that much damage to a loaded truck that van would have to be doing 70+
Simple solution to some of these accidents….. People slow the **/+++DOWN and pay attention to your driving!
More police patrol checkpoints are needed…in this area…… when you make people fear speeding tickets speed will drastically deplete where it should not be this could have been anyone