(PIKESVILLE, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police over the weekend responded to three different fatal motorcycle crashes within 24 hours in Anne Arundel, Queen Anne\u2019s and Charles counties.<\/p>\n
An 18-year-old rider died after a crash on Sunday in Anne Arundel County. Emergency medical services personnel pronounced Joseph Maeda Raiger, of Alexandria, Virginia, deceased at the scene. Troopers from the Annapolis Barrack responded at about 5:30 p.m. to a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 97 North near Crownsville. Investigators believe Raiger lost control of his 2020 Yamaha motorcycle before crashing in a median.<\/p>\n
Another motorcyclist, Cody Morris, 21, of Grasonville, Maryland, died Sunday following a three-vehicle crash in Queen Anne\u2019s County. Emergency medical services personnel pronounced him deceased at the scene. Troopers from the Centreville Barrack responded to the crash at about 12:35 a.m. on Route 50 West, north of Route 404 in Queenstown. According to a preliminary investigation, Morris was operating a 2005 Yamaha motorcycle when it struck an impact attenuator.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Saturday, a motorcyclist died after crashing in Charles County. Markese Al-Kwonand Nelson, 44, of California, Maryland, was pronounced deceased at the scene by emergency medical services personnel. Troopers from the La Plata Barrack responded to the crash at about 6:50 p.m. on southbound Old Leonardtown Road and Homeland Drive in Hughesville. Investigators suspect Nelson lost control of his 2016 Harley-Davidson before overturning in a center median.<\/p>\n
Maryland State Police are reminding motorists to share the road and for motorcycle operators to ride safely and defensively<\/a>. Always wear a helmet because it’s the law. The causes of all three crashes are under investigation.<\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n CONTACT: Office of Media Communications, msp.media@maryland.gov<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (PIKESVILLE, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police over the weekend responded to three different fatal motorcycle crashes within 24 hours in Anne Arundel, Queen Anne\u2019s and Charles counties. An 18-year-old rider died after a crash on Sunday in Anne Arundel County. Emergency medical services personnel pronounced Joseph Maeda Raiger, of Alexandria, Virginia, deceased at the scene. Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,44,22,28,1],"tags":[90,62,89,88],"class_list":["post-28457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barracksh-la-plata","category-barracksj-annapolis","category-barrackss-centreville","category-press-releases","category-uncategorized","tag-crash-team","tag-maryland-state-police","tag-msp-centreville-barrack","tag-the-maryland-state-police-crash-team"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28457"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28466,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28457\/revisions\/28466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}