A 64-year-old Baltimore man involved in a two-car crash on Route 140 Monday night has become the third accident fatality in the county this year, state police reported.
Louis P. Woodfolk of the 1500 block of Lakeside Ave. was pronounced dead less than three hours after he was flown from Finksburg to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. According to police, Mr. Woodfolk was driving a late-model Jaguar when he pulled from a used sports car dealership onto Route 140 and was struck broadside by a Mercury Grand Marquis about 7:20 p.m.
Mr. Woodfolk, who died at 11:30 p.m. Monday, was one of five people involved in three unrelated auto accidents who were taken to the trauma center Monday.
The driver of the Mercury, John A. McCarthy, 68, of Finksburg was in serious but stable condition at the trauma center yesterday.
About four hours before the crash on Route 140, a 27-year-old Finksburg woman was flown to the center after her Ford Taurus station wagon was struck from the rear and the front and on the left door by three vehicles in a crash on Route 91 at Amanda Lane.
Kathleen Marie Dicarlo of the 1800 block of Amanda Lane was in serious but stable condition at Shock Trauma yesterday. According to police, she had just picked up a 4-year-old girl and was driving to the girl's home when the accident occurred.
The driver of one of the other cars involved in the accident, Robert Brucksch Jr., 30, of Glen Burnie, was treated at Carroll County General Hospital Monday and released. The drivers of the other two cars in the accident were not injured, police said. No charges have been filed.
A two-car crash near Cranberry Mall in Westminster sent two people to Shock Trauma Monday.
James J. Cotterell, 41, of New Windsor, who was driving a Ford Escort station wagon, collided with a 1988 Ford station wagon driven by Nancy Harlan, 63, of Taneytown, police said. Mr. Cotterell and Daniel V. Staten, 39, of North Carolina, a passenger in Ms. Harlan's car, were flown to the trauma center. Mr. Cotterell was released yesterday, while Mr. Staten remained at Shock Trauma in critical condition.