http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/20/AR2007032000637.html
Truck Driver Charged With Reckless Driving
One Man Dead, Two Others Injured After Accident on I-495
By Candace Rondeaux
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 20, 2007; 12:32 PM
Maryland State Police have charged a Delaware truck driver with reckless driving for his role in a multiple vehicle accident last night in Prince George's County that killed a Riverdale man, injured two others and closed a section of Interstate 495 for six hours.
The accident occurred about 11 p.m. on the outer-loop of the Beltway, north of Route 1 when Roger Carlett Scofield, Jr., 54, crashed a tractor trailer he was driving into the rear of a Honda Accord, state police said. The truck pushed the Honda, which was traveling behind two other vehicles in the third lane from the left, into a nearby wall, then hit a 1994 Acura Integra and a 1996 Nissan Altima driving ahead of the Accord.
The driver of the Nissan, Jose Marcos Portillo Villalta, 33, of the 5800 block of East Pine Drive, was pinned beneath the front end of the tractor trailer and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
The driver of the Honda, Marco Saint Aylmer Hall, 32, of Bowie, was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Baltimore where he remains in treatment for life threatening injuries. The driver of the Acura, Francisco Nelson Saravia, 29, of Arlington, was treated by paramedics at the scene, police said.
Scofield, who was returning to Wilmington, Del., in a truck owned by New Jersey-based B.K. Trucking after delivering a shipment of bananas in Disputanta, Va., was not injured in the crash, police said.
Authorities also charged Scofield with negligent driving, failure to control speed to avoid a collision and driving with a suspended out-of-state license. Police said he could face further charges.
