Woman pays $470 in bridge fatality

19-year-old pleads guilty to negligent driving

By SCOTT DAUGHERTY, Staff Writer

Published 02/18/09

The driver who fell asleep while crossing the Bay Bridge last summer, causing a fatal wreck that sent a tractor-trailer plunging into the water more than 30 feet below, has pleaded guilty to three traffic charges.

Paul W. Gillespie - The Capital A tractor trailer plunged from the eastbound span of the Bay Bridge early Sunday morning, August 10, killing the driver.

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Truck runs off Bay Bridge

Early Sunday morning, Aug. 10, a truck drives off of the eastbound span of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge tying up traffice for days.

Candy Lynn Baldwin, 19, of the small Eastern Shore town of Millington in Kent County, was not required to appear in Queen Anne's County District Court last month to face the charges of negligent driving, failure to drive right of center and violating a license restriction.

She or one of her family members merely paid $470 in fines on Jan. 22 in Centreville to settle the tickets, Queen Anne's State's...

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Fines Wrong! - 2009-02-19 09:45:40

Maryland speeding tickets are much higher than $25 and $90. The maximum fine for a first speeding offense is $500. Your paper also fails to report the true total cost of DUI offenses. Those run significantly higher than $250.

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Irresponsibel - 2009-02-18 18:38:46

Very nice job. Why don't you just publish her email address and phone number so she can get the hate mail and death threats some lunatics out there will probably want to make. Once again The Capital goes for a tabloid like headline to sell their weak paper. Plus you could at least edit the headline correctly on your homepage.

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