The Associated Press
ST. MICHAELS, Md. — Two people were killed in a crash with a trooper’s vehicle in St. Michaels today, Maryland State Police said.
Maynard Lowry, 88, of Tilghman was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash today. His sister, 87-year-old Alma Lowry, also of Tilghman, died at Easton Memorial Hospital, where she was taken after the crash.
Officials said Trooper First Class Philip Willoughby was responding to a report of a crash and was traveling east on Route 33 in St. Michaels, with the vehicle’s emergency lights and siren on, shortly before 3 p.m.
Authorities said as the trooper’s vehicle approached a shopping center east of Madison Avenue, a Toyota Cressida driven by Maynard Lowry pulled from the shopping center and into the path of the cruiser. The trooper’s Ford Crown Victoria struck the Toyota on the driver’s side.
Willoughby was treated for lacerations and contusions and released from Shock Trauma in Baltimore.
The accident is under investigation.