Horrible day in Anne Arundel County, MD:Fatal crash halts morning traffic near Arundel Mills – Early Evening Fatal Plane Crash

This was a brutal day in Anne Arundel County, MD.  As the Baltimore Sun reported –Fatal crash halts morning traffic near Arundel Mills – baltimoresun.com –

At 6:29 a.m., rescue workers were called to a collision on eastbound 100, just west of Telegraph Road, near the MARC system’s Penn Line.

The vehicle went off the road and fell about 30 to 40 feet to the train tracks below, with crews taking roughly 20 minutes to free the two victims, Cox said. One victim, a man estimated to be about 40 years of age, was flown by medevac helicopter to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center. The second man, estimated to be about 30 years old, was pronounced dead at the scene.

At 4:30 this afternoon, according to a news report from the Baltimore Sun, a single engine plane crashed in the backyard of a single family home.  The pilot died; no one else was injured according to the report.  The crash took place in Edgewater, near Lee Airport and not far from the intersection of Solomons Island Road and Warehouse Creek Lane.