NS..Please, Be Careful on the Roads.

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My dad and Scott Stegner used to work together. I lived in VA for a year, and went to the same school as Sean. Rest in peace. Please don't be wreckless on the roads guys.

Three People Are Killed In Rush-Hour Collision

By Daniel de Vise

Washington Post Staff Writer

Saturday, December 29, 2007; Page B02

Scott Stegner and his teenage son, Sean, had dropped off the boy's grandmother at her home in Pennsylvania and were driving back to Fairfax County on Route 15 in Maryland when, according to police, a pair of headlights barreled toward them.

The Stegners died Thursday in a head-on collision with a Cadillac Escalade whose driver had lost control of her vehicle in the afternoon rush, police said. Sean's mother, a United Airlines flight attendant who was on her way to Japan at the time of the crash, arrived home just after 8 p.m. yesterday to join her three surviving children.

Accident investigators focused on the Escalade and its driver, Jennifer M. Adel Carter, 27, who was also killed. Moments before the 5:30 p.m. crash, a motorist alerted police that a Cadillac sport-utility vehicle was passing vehicles on the shoulder of the two-lane highway in rural Frederick County, Maryland State Police spokesman Greg Shipley said.

Carter, who lived in the Frederick community of Point of Rocks, was driving north when her SUV struck the rear of a Honda Element driven by 38-year-old Kevin Strauss of Columbia, according to police and Strauss.

"I saw the headlights of this big car square in my rearview mirror," said Strauss, who was not hurt. "And I don't remember seeing any signal lights or things like that. I was going 60, and I think the Cadillac came up at, like, 100."

The impact caused Carter's Escalade to veer into the southbound lane, where it struck the Chrysler minivan that carried Stegner, 49, and his 14-year-old son, police said.

Strauss said he regained control of his vehicle, parked on the shoulder and ran back to the Escalade, which was "just completely smashed in," he said. He felt for a pulse on Carter's body and could not find one. All three motorists were dead when rescue workers arrived, police said. The wreck closed Route 15 for about five hours.

Police said that they had not determined Carter's speed and that there was no immediate sign that alcohol was a factor in the crash. Carter was not wearing a seat belt.

Carter lived a few miles south of the accident site. Her mother, Helen, said she was too distraught to discuss the matter.

"I just lost my daughter out on Route 15," she said. "I don't want to talk right now."

Jennifer Carter had been charged in recent years with multiple traffic offenses, including driving while intoxicated, according to court records.

In 2004, she pleaded guilty to driving a vehicle under the influence of alcohol in two separate cases in Frederick. The following year, she pleaded guilty to the more serious charge of driving while impaired by alcohol and driving on a suspended license.

This year, she was charged with first-degree escape, a charge typically filed when someone flees police custody or a corrections facility. Details of that case, which was set to go to trial in April, could not be learned yesterday.

Friends of the Stegner family filed in and out of the powder-blue family home on a stately cul-de-sac in Clifton yesterday to deliver food and hugs.

Scott Stegner was a senior program manager at Lockheed Martin in Oakton, said Dave Weiss, a family friend. His wife, Yumiko, works United's Dulles-Tokyo route and had left Dulles International Airport hours before her husband and son were killed. She raced home after the crash to rejoin daughters Christina, 23, a 2007 graduate of the University of Virginia; Laura, 21, a senior at Longwood University in Farmville, Va.; and Melissa, 12, who had attended nearby Liberty Middle School with her brother.

 
I get so mad when I hear stories like this. There is nothing more offensive than someone with such disregard for someone else's life that they would do be so reckless. I know people like to drive fast, it's fun, i've done it. But if always be safe. you're not just dealing with your own life, you're dealing with others. These people didn't deserve this and the woman's carelessness caused irreparable damage to their family. Let this be a lesson to be safe, and be calm on the roads, it's worth it in the end...RIP.
 
rip

driving home from burlington yesterday we saw a car on the other side of 89 lose control and flip over into the median, it was intense. definitely be careful out there.
 
Yea rip to your friend and his dad...
Vibes to the family.....

I hate when people do that; when they drive out of control and just ignore it, and think nothing is going to happen, and then at the end you and other people may end up dead or severely injured.

It's so horrible.
 
RIP. So shitty, 2 people minding there own business have to die because some bitch is driving like a grade A asshole.
 
so sad dude, reminds me of this story I just read in the times...

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The aftermath of a crash involving a minivan and a pickup truck headed

the wrong direction on a highway in Toledo, Ohio. The truck’s driver

was charged with aggravated vehicular homicide.

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Published: January 1, 2008

CINCINNATI — A woman and four children traveling home to Maryland from Michigan were killed on an Ohio

highway when their minivan was struck by a pickup truck being driven

the wrong way by a man whose blood-alcohol level registered three times

the legal limit, the authorities said Monday.

Three other people in the van were injured in the crash Sunday night. Two of them were in critical condition.

Christmas presents were strewn among the wreckage of the minivan on

Interstate 280 in Toledo, Ohio, near Interstate 75. The impact ripped

away the front passenger seat and two doors, and several victims were

ejected.

“To take the lives of five out of the eight family

members, I would have to say that would be the worst wreck that I have

ever seen,” said Luis Santiago, an assistant fire chief who is a 23-year veteran of the Toledo Fire Department.

The

police said that several people tried to alert them about the driver of

the pickup truck, identified as Michael R. Gagnon, 24, of Adrian, Mich.

The

police said that Mr. Gagnon had been drinking at a bar in Oregon, Ohio,

before driving to a Taco Bell. A worker there called 911 to report a

drunken driver, describing a driver and truck similar to Mr. Gagnon and

his Ford F-350 truck, the police said. A police officer arrived too

late to stop Mr. Gagnon from entering I-280 heading north in the

southbound lanes.

A driver heading south also called the police

to report a truck speeding past in the wrong direction, moments before

the authorities said Mr. Gagnon rounded a curve and struck the minivan.

The

crash killed Bethany Griffin, 36, of Parkville, Md.; her infant

daughter, Vadi Griffin, eight weeks; her stepdaughter Jordan Griffin,

10; and her daughters, Lacie Burkman, 7, and Haley Burkman, 10. Ms.

Griffin’s husband, Danny Griffin Jr., 36, was in critical condition in

intensive care on Monday. His 8-year-old daughter, Sidney Griffin, was

in stable condition. Ms. Griffin’s 8-year-old son, Beau Burkman, was in

critical condition.

Chief Santiago said Mr. Gagnon was

belligerent toward hospital workers before being treated for minor

injuries. After the police obtained a search warrant, medical workers

drew Mr. Gagnon’s blood, which registered an alcohol level of 0.254

percent, more than three times Ohio’s 0.08 percent legal limit.

Mr. Gagnon was charged Monday with aggravated vehicular homicide.

The

scene of the accident was unsettling, even for seasoned emergency

workers, Chief Santiago said. “I can only imagine what the families are

going through,” he said. “I know our first responders and medics had a

hard time with this.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/us/01van.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

 
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