(WEST FRIENDSHIP, MD) – Maryland State Police are investigating a single vehicle crash that injured a state trooper this afternoon in Howard County.
The trooper is identified as Corporal Matthew Telep, assigned to the JFK Highway Barrack, who is a five-year-veteran of the Maryland State Police. He is listed in serious condition at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center. The initial assessment determined he sustained what are believed to be non-life threatening injuries.
Shortly before 4:30 p.m. today, State Police and Howard County Police units responded to calls reporting a crash on eastbound I-70, just east of Rt. 32. Arriving troopers and officers found the marked State Police car against a tree off the right side of the roadway.
The trooper was trapped inside the vehicle and was extricated by personnel from the Howard County Fire Department. He was flown by a Maryland State Police helicopter to Shock Trauma.
The preliminary investigation by Maryland State Police troopers from the Waterloo Barrack and the CRASH Team, indicates the trooper was in uniform in a marked patrol car traveling east on I-70. For reasons unknown at this time, the vehicle traveled off the right side of the interstate. The driver’s side of the car struck the tree. A motorist who called the barrack later this evening said they witnessed the crash and believed the trooper was cut off by another vehicle. There is no description on that other vehicle at this time. Investigators will be following up on that information.
Cpl. Telep is believed to have been returning home after a highway escort assignment. He had escorted an oversized load from Baltimore to Western Maryland earlier today.
Eastbound I-70 had to be closed during the initial rescue and investigation. The fast lane was reopened just before 6:00 p.m. All lanes are expected to be reopened by 7:30 p.m., if not sooner. Westbound traffic was halted briefly while the helicopter landed in the westbound lanes. State Highway Administration personnel responded and assisted with detours around the scene.
The investigation is continuing.
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Screw those traffic agents.
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ReplyDeleteHope you never have a loved one in a serious accident. Or that you need a "traffic agent". Stop being a hater....it is so obnoxious
A member of the Maryland Schutzstaffel must have been driving too fast for conditions
ReplyDeleteThese men and women make very little money starting out and risk their lives every day to stop people on the road that may be drug runners or worse. Consider how you would feel if that young person were your son or daughter. They are to be praised.
ReplyDeleteToo All of you, these idiot "troopers" take the job knowing the pay, and knowing that 90% of the job is writing tickets so to me that is a DIRT-BAG, if they wanted a real job as a police officer take the sheriff test FBI test CIA test US Marshall's test ,these are real police officers not a glorified Traffic Agent with a gun.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a Maryland State Trooper, "Traffic Agent" - not a member of a Highway Patrol. 90% of a MD Trooper's job does not entail writing tickets... unless you are talking about the metropolitan Baltimore/DC areas - where beltway enforcement is a priority! BTW - your idea of "real" police officers is a joke.... FBI, CIA. What an imbecile!
ReplyDeleteI agree with 8:40 troopers are a joke, just saying.
ReplyDeleteThey are nasty people
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