As it came to find out, through the naieve honesty of said cunt, as she told the Washington Post and the Maryland State Police without any thought in her mind that she may have committed a crime, she admitted she fell asleep at the wheel after driving home to the Eastern Shore from a wedding in Baltimore the night before.
With as harsh as governments prosecute those who cause fatal accidents while driving under the impairment of alcohol and narcotics, isn't it more than about time we start prosecuting those who fall asleep at the wheel and cause fatal accidents? This bitch was just as irresponsible and reckless as Dins when he's driving to a 250-pound slumpbuster's house after putting back 16 Beast Lights at a shithole bar in the U&L. While it is inherently difficult for the government to prove, without a confession, that falling asleep at the wheel was the cause for a fatal accident, the fact this bitch casually told not only the state police but the freaking Post that she fell asleep at the wheel, really grinds my gears.
If you get your license revoked for being drunk and causing a fatality, you should have the same happen to you for falling asleep at the wheel. Period. And 19 year old bitches shouldn't be legally allowed to drive Cameros, but that's another rant for another thread.
19-year-old driver in Bay crash tested for alcohol
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - A 19-year-old driver involved in Sunday's deadly accident on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge was tested for alcohol, Maryland Transportation Authority Police say.
Marcus Brown, chief of Maryland Transportation Authority Police says they expect tests results from 19-year-old Candy Lynn Baldwin of Millington, Md. in about a week.
Brown says information on the crash will be given to the Queen Anne's County State's Attorney.
Baldwin tells The Washington Post she fell asleep at the wheel during the 4 a.m. accident, which involved another car and sent a tractor-trailer careening on the bridge wall and plunging 30 to 40 feet into the bay.
Police say Baldwin gave them similar information. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
Maryland online court records show Baldwin was charged with speeding in May 2006 and September 2007. She pleaded guilty to both charges and paid fines totaling $235.
Baldwin tells the paper she didn't realize she had been in an accident until she regained consciousness in her 1997 Camaro after the the accident. She says she was exhausted after her mother's wedding in Baltimore the night before.
She broke both of her kneecaps in the accident and injured her spleen and liver. She is hospitalized at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center.
Maryland Transportation Authority Police say the crash was not recorded on traffic cameras on the Bay Bridge.
Truck driver John Short, 57, of Willard, was killed in the accident.
Short was driving a Mountaire Farms truck carrying a load of frozen chicken and headed westbound when an eastbound vehicle crossed the center line in two-way traffic, causing the truck to hit the brakes, according to authorities.
The truck - which officials say was traveling at about 55 miles per hour - crashed into the bridge's wall and dropped 30 to 40 feet into the water.
Brown spoke at a news conference outside authority headquarters along with the authority's executive secretary, Ronald L. Freeland. Much of the questioning at the news conference centered on two-way traffic on the span when the accident occurred.
Freeland said the authority prefers to run traffic in just one direction on each of the two spans but two-way traffic on a single span is unavoidable at times, particularly when maintenance work is being done on the other span.
Freeland apologized for the inconvenience caused by traffic backups on both sides of the bridge for miles Sunday, saying safety was the priority. He acknowledged that two-way traffic is "not the optimal way to do business, but really the only way" to perform maintenance.
Brown noted that over the past four years, there have been 259 accidents on the bridge, 24 percent of which occurred during two-way operations and 6 percent involving cars traveling in opposite direction. However, Brown said he did not know what percentage of time bridge traffic was in two-way operations.
Freeland repeatedly stressed the unusual nature of the accident and said that the barriers were safe and met standards in place when they were last replaced between 1986 and 1988.
On Monday, a state engineer said the speed and size of the tractor-trailer appeared to be what led the truck to crash off the bridge, not any failing by the bridge's protective wall. No overall accident cause has yet been reported by authorities, but Geoffrey Kolberg, chief engineer for the Maryland Transportation Authorities, discounted any structural problems with the bridge.
Drivers planning to travel on the Bay Bridge this weekend can expect to see more patrol cars and police motorcycles.
Maryland Transportation Authority spokesman Cpl. Jonathan Green says officers will be looking for people who are speeding, driving aggressively and passing other drivers.
"One crash, even a simple one, creates a great deal of delays for everybody else," Green says.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. - A 19-year-old driver involved in Sunday's deadly accident on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge was tested for alcohol, Maryland Transportation Authority Police say.
Marcus Brown, chief of Maryland Transportation Authority Police says they expect tests results from 19-year-old Candy Lynn Baldwin of Millington, Md. in about a week.
Brown says information on the crash will be given to the Queen Anne's County State's Attorney.
Baldwin tells The Washington Post she fell asleep at the wheel during the 4 a.m. accident, which involved another car and sent a tractor-trailer careening on the bridge wall and plunging 30 to 40 feet into the bay.
Police say Baldwin gave them similar information. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
Maryland online court records show Baldwin was charged with speeding in May 2006 and September 2007. She pleaded guilty to both charges and paid fines totaling $235.
Baldwin tells the paper she didn't realize she had been in an accident until she regained consciousness in her 1997 Camaro after the the accident. She says she was exhausted after her mother's wedding in Baltimore the night before.
She broke both of her kneecaps in the accident and injured her spleen and liver. She is hospitalized at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center.
Maryland Transportation Authority Police say the crash was not recorded on traffic cameras on the Bay Bridge.
Truck driver John Short, 57, of Willard, was killed in the accident.
Short was driving a Mountaire Farms truck carrying a load of frozen chicken and headed westbound when an eastbound vehicle crossed the center line in two-way traffic, causing the truck to hit the brakes, according to authorities.
The truck - which officials say was traveling at about 55 miles per hour - crashed into the bridge's wall and dropped 30 to 40 feet into the water.
Here's said cunt: GIVE HER THE NEEDLE!Teen Driver in Bridge Crash Has History of Traffic Troubles
BALTIMORE - One of the drivers involved in Sunday's deadly accident on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge has reportedly said she fell asleep at the wheel of the car, and court records indicate the 19-year-old woman has had a recent pattern of traffic violations.
Maryland court records show that the woman, Candy Lyn Baldwin, pleaded guilty to traffic violations thee times in 19 months, and two of those charges were for speeding.
Baldwin was driving eastbound on the Bay Bridge early Sunday morning when the crash occurred, and she has since emerged as a major figure in the accident investigation.
Police say Baldwin's Chevrolet Camaro sideswiped a tractor-trailer truck driven by 57-year-old John Short of Willard. The cab of the truck rode up on the jersey wall, and the truck's trailer caused the barrier to brake. Then, the truck rolled into the water.
Short died in the crash.
On Tuesday, authorities released several 911 calls that document the early minutes of the crash, which took days to clean up. Now, new attention is being focused on Baldwin, who is from Millington, Maryland.
Mike Hong, who was driving on the bridge on Sunday morning, told FOX 5 he saw Baldwin's Camaro go out of control.
"I saw the Camaro weave into the oncoming traffic and it collided with the tractor-trailer," said Hong.
So far, no charges have been filed in the bridge crash, but charges were filed against Baldwin in a series of traffic violations, according to Maryland court records. In May 2006, Baldwin pleaded guilty to driving 70 mph in a 50 mph zone, and in September 2007 she pleaded guilty to going 72 mph in a 55 mile an hour zone.
On her myspace web page, Baldwin posted photos of her Camaro, describing the car as "powerful". Other photos show the 19-year-old woman behind the wheel of a car holding a bottle of rum, and still more photos show her holding beer cans.
In yet another picture, Baldwin is seen with what appears to be a funnel hose in her mouth, with the caption 'Taking it like a champ'.
"We will obviously look at everything. Driver history and absolutely, we'll take everything into consideration," said Johnathan Green, a spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Highway Authority.
Currently, there is no evidence to suggest that Baldwin was drunk, or that she had been drinking at the time of the crash early Sunday.
Police tell FOX 5 they run toxicology tests in accident cases where a fatality is involved. Those results are not in yet, and no charges have been filed.
Baldwin told the Washington Post she was driving home from her mother's wedding at the time of the accident, and that she fell asleep at the wheel. Officials say she gave similar statements to investigators.
Baldwin is currently hospitalized at Maryland Shock Trauma, where she is being treated for injuries to her liver, spleen, and two broken knee caps.
