Update:
The Bay Net can confirm that the driver of the Mitsubishi involved in yesterday’s Rt. 4 crash was Calvert County Commissioner Susan Shaw. Commissioner Shaw, and her 15 year-old daughter, who was the passenger at the time, were both taken to Calvert Memorial Hospital following the collision. “She and her daughter suffered minor cuts and bruises only,” Corinne Cook, Clerk for the Board of County Commissioners, told The Bay Net today. “Thankfully,” said Cook, there were “no serious injuries [to the Shaw family members].”
There is as yet no further news on the condition of the 73-year-old passenger in the second vehicle involved in the crash, who was flown from the scene with incapacitating injuries.
The initial report of the incident is below:
At about 2:30 p.m. Aug. 2, a serious personal injury crash occurred on northbound Rt. 4 at Fowler Road in Owings.
State troopers report Susan Shaw, 58 of Huntingtown, was attempting to cross the north bound lanes of Rt. 4 in a 2001 Mitsubishi. She failed to yield to a 1996 Buick Sedan traveling north.
Impact occurred in the right lane of northbound Rt. 4. The Buick was being driven by Brenda Trott, 49 of Huntingtown.
A passenger in the Buick, Betty Evans, 73 of Huntingtown, suffered incapacitating injuries and was flown by Maryland State Police helicopter Trooper 2 to PG County Shock Trauma.
Shaw was transported to Calvert Memorial Hospital for observation, and investigating officer TFC Whipp believes Shaw’s passenger, a 15-year-old female was also went to Calvert Memorial Hospital for evaluation or treatment.
Trott was evaluated at the scene but was not transported.
Members of the Dunkirk (Company 5) and Huntingtown (Company 6) Volunteer Fire Departments and Rescue Squads responded. Various personnel from the Maryland State Police and Calvert County Sheriff’s Office responded to safeguard the scene, attend to the injured and investigate the incident.
The investigation is continuing.