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Passenger killed when truck t-boned car
NEWBURG (May 6, 2010) --- Maryland State Police report that a Cobb Island woman was killed on Thursday, Ma, 6, 2010 at about 11:28 am when the Lincoln in which she was a passenger made a turn from the southbound lane of Rt. 301 at Rt. 234 and was struck by a northbound truck.
Dead was Sarah Ann Swann, 85, who took the brunt of the impact when hit by a 2009 International operated by James Everett Johnson, 57, of Virginia Beach, Va.
Johnson was reported to have suffered non-life threatening injuries.
The 2000 Lincoln was operated by Joann Rector Chapman, 58, of Cobb Island.
Swann was declared dead at the scene and Chapman was flown by Med Star to PG shock trauma center.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation by the La Plata Barrack of the State Police.