OCEAN CITY -- The proverbial other shoe dropped late last week for a local man now facing 11 additional charges, including two counts of causing a life-threatening injury by motor vehicle while impaired by a controlled dangerous substance, after plowing into the back of a passenger vehicle on Coastal Highway in mid-December.
The Worcester County State’s Attorney’s Office last Friday charged Andre Kaczynski, 48, of Ocean Pines, with 11 new counts including two counts of causing a life-threatening injury by motor vehicle while under the influence of a controlled dangerous substance. Kaczynski was arrested on Dec. 16, 2011 after he ran into the back of a passenger vehicle stopped at a traffic light on Coastal Highway at 142nd Street at a high rate of speed while allegedly under the influence of Phencyclidine (PCP).
The passenger car, occupied by Ann Marie DelRicco and her then-18-month-old daughter Ava, was crumpled in the high-speed collision as emergency responders worked to extricate the victims from the wreckage. The child, Ava DelRicco, was flown to the Johns Hopkins Trauma Center in Baltimore with serious injuries and continues along a slow road to recovery. Ann Marie DelRicco also suffered serious injuries and was later released from the hospital.
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Ava's Law should be rewritten. It should be driving under the influence of an illegal substance or illegally obstained (not prescribed) CDS. Then up the sentence somewhere to the 10-20 yr max.
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