On Friday afternoon, May 2016, a woman was killed in a motorcycle crash.

According to Maryland State Police the accident happened at around 1 p.m. on Alternate U.S. 40 between Boonsboro and Hagerstown when 34 year old Jessica Simmons of Hagerstown was riding east with another motorcyclist when her motorcycle collided with a westbound Buick sedan near Cool Hollow Road.

Simmons was declared dead at the scene and her body was taken to the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy.

Patrick Simmons, aged 34, and also of Hagerstown, confirmed his wife’s identity Saturday evening.

Neither the driver of the Buick nor the other motorcyclist was injured.

Jessica is survived by her husband, Patrick S. Simmons; three children, Shayann Fisher, Reese Wilson and Lailah Hutzler; mother-in-law, Cathy D. Simmons; and extended family in Tennessee.

If you or a loved one has been in an accident, please call the Cumberland car accident attorneys of Dolina Hobbs, LLC, at (301) 739-1013 or contact us online today. Today’s technology has created more distractions, but it has also given us more tools to prove that a driver was distracted when they caused an accident.

On Saturday, March 26 a Hagerstown man had a serious motorcycle accident in Pennsylvania.

According to Pennsylvania State Police, the accident happened shortly before 7 p.m.in the southbound lanes of Interstate 81 near Exit 14 for Wayne Avenue which is along the southeast city line of Chambersburg.

Marshall W. Branch III, aged 31, was operating a 2013 Harley-Davidson Road Glide Ultra and traveling south in the fast lane of I-81 when the motorcycle drifted onto the rumble strips on the left side of the lanes and then lost traction on the soft gravel shoulder. Branch tried to get back into the fast lane but the bike fell onto its side and slid across the road.

Branch was wearing a helmet and was airlifted to York, PA hospital and is thought to have broken one of his legs.

If you or a loved one has been in an accident, please call the Cumberland car accident attorneys of Dolina Hobbs, LLC, at (301) 739-1013 or contact us online today. Today’s technology has created more distractions, but it has also given us more tools to prove that a driver was distracted when they caused an accident.