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When the weather warms, more people take advantage of a restaurant’s outdoor dining option. It allows diners to enjoy the benefits of restaurant dining while still enjoying the outdoors. However, one woman in Annapolis might think twice before she chooses to eat outside again after an accident left her seriously injured. With an increasing awareness of these types of car accidents, more and more people may opt to decline dining outdoors.

The 20-year-old woman was seated outside of a restaurant in Annapolis Towne Centre. A 78-year-old male driver was attempting to park his car in front of the restaurant. He unexpectedly jumped the curve before crashing into a group of outdoor diners.

According to reports, tire marks at the scene indicate that the man was spending in the direction of the restaurant front before he abruptly turned to the right and into the outside seating area filled with several people. The driver allegedly hit the brake and gas pedal as he attempted to park. Both the driver and the young woman were transported to the hospital. While the woman suffered serious injuries, she is expected to survive.

Anyone who has driven on the Jones Falls Expressway in Baltimore will find it easy to imagine the kind of auto accident that recently sent a tow-truck driver over the edge of the guard rail and into the water. The breakdown lanes on that stretch of road are narrow, and it’s been noted that police officers are reluctant to stop vehicles there because of safety concerns.

Unfortunately, those concerns are well-founded, as a single-vehicle SUV accident led to a second collision and injuries to a police officer and the tow-truck driver.

The Baltimore City tow truck had shown up to remove the first SUV from the roadway, but a second SUV approached and hit the first one. A police officer on the scene was injured, and the tow-truck driver, who was outside of his vehicle at the time, was knocked over the highway’s guard wall. He reportedly fell 25 feet and landed on an island in Jones Falls.

Medical malpractice, workers’ compensation and auto accidents — these are the legal topics that we’ll discuss each week on this blog, which we started as a way of sharing stories with readers in the Annapolis area. If you have injury-related concerns, then you may want to return to this blog every so often to learn about issues that are relevant to Maryland law.

Everyone knows, or should know, that there are certain risks attached to driving or riding in a car. Even a cursory glance of news headlines reveals the devastation that can occur when negligent drivers get behind the wheel. Head-on collisions are a particular problem in Maryland, and the National Transportation Safety Board is working to reduce the number of wrong-way crashes that happen each year.

According to the NTSB, about 360 deaths occur annually on U.S. roads as a result of wrong-way auto accidents. In the last several years, nearly a dozen Maryland residents died between the beltway and Interstate 97 in head-on crashes.