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Accidents on U.S. Route 301 Claim 15 Lives So Far in 1998
By CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE= MARCH 18: A 36-year-old Waldorf woman was killed when she ran off a wet Route 301 in Upper Marlboro and slammed into a tree. JULY 9: Frank Beaver failed to yield the right-of-way while trying to cross Route 301 in his Chevy S-10 and was hit by a tractor- trailer near Centreville. JULY 31: Gail Thayer, 39, suffered fatal head injuries when another driver struck her Buick Le Sabre on Route 301 near Upper Marlboro on July 31. AUG. 17: John Edward Hinton, 59, ran a red light at Frank Tippett Road and Route 301 in his Chevy Cavalier and was hit in Cheltenham. SEPT. 14: Leonard Charles Redner, 35, of Waldorf, was killed on Route 301 at McKendree Road in Brandywine when the street sweeper he was driving ran into the back of a milk tanker. SEPT. 17: A 33-year-old man died when his sedan collided with a sports-utility vehicle on Route 301 in Upper Marlboro. OCT. 6: Judith Williams, 44, was killed in Upper Marlboro when a car crossed the median of Route 301 and hit her sports-utility vehicle. OCT. 9: Three women were killed when their Honda Prelude was hit by a truck as they turned from Route 302 onto Route 301. Juanita Wilkes, 79, and her daughters Brenda Wilkes, 49, and Faye Perry, 50, were returning from Dover Downs when the accident occurred. OCT. 13: Larry Marshall Berman, 55, was walking across Route 301 in Bowie when Prince George's County Police Cpl. Todd Landers, who was off-duty, hit him in a marked police cruiser. OCT. 14: Another pedestrian, Eric Judd, 35, was struck and killed on Route 301 by a 1997 Cadillac in an early-morning accident in Cheltenham. OCT 15: Gwen Belyea, 46, died hours after a tow truck ran a red light at Governor's Bridge Road and Route 301, broadsiding her car. OCT. 21: Woodrow Wilson Williams, 62, was killed when he failed to yield the right-of- way at Old Central Avenue and Route 301 and his Ford Thunderbird was hit. NOV. 3: Edward Rivinus, 82, was killed when he ran a red light and hit another car at Rosaryville Road and Route 301 in Cheltenham
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