OCEAN CITY — The good news is the 2-year-child ejected into the bay during Sunday’s multi-vehicle accident was released from the hospital on Tuesday, but the incident could trigger a renewed effort to dualize the dangerous highway.
Around 2:47 p.m. last Sunday, multiple vehicles collided on the Route 90 bridge, leaving eight total injured, including a 2-year-old female child, who had been ejected with her car seat from a pick-up truck left teetering over the guardrail and fell roughly 30 feet into the bay below. A Good Samaritan on the bridge saw the child ejected into the bay and jumped over the rail to save her before being pulled out of water by a local family boating nearby.
By Monday afternoon, seven individuals injured during the collision had been released from area hospitals. By Tuesday morning, the 2-year-old child was released from a Baltimore hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. At the close of Monday’s regular meeting, Mayor Rick Meehan praised the selfless “humble hero,” as he is being called, and took the occasion to rekindle discussions about dualizing Route 90. Before he delved into the latter, however, the mayor had high praise for the Good Samaritan who leaped from the bridge into shallow water at his own peril to save the child.
“One of the patients that was transported was a 2-year-old baby that was ejected from one of the vehicles and dropped into the bay,” he said. “The incident was very difficult, but it would have been even more so if it hadn’t have been for an extremely heroic individual. This humble hero jumped from the bridge to rescue the child. There is no doubt this individual saved that child’s life.”
Rt. 90 does not need to be made a dual highway. It needs to have those concrete barriers put in the center of the road from Rt. 50, across the two bridges and all the way to Coastal Highway in OC. Leave open areas for the farmers to cross from one side to another. You can not changes peoples driving habits any other way!
Dueling 90 will be a drastic mistake as long as you allow these idiots to exceed the speed limit and drive in an aggressive manner without consequences. The same on 50 leading into Salisbury from OC to Salisbury. There are no cameras on the road signs on 50 that could capture speeders and aggressive drivers then send them tickets.
Just like the Bay Bridge talk on allowing construction to allow more idiots to cross over to the Shore.
These are terrible ideas which does nothing for the safety of the Public.
Total ridiculous ideas. All they are thinking about is money money money so let the ones in these accidents sue all of these supporters including the State Roads Dept and the Politians They are the ones creating death traps on the highways while decreasing Police Depts budget so they do not have the manpower.