On Tuesday, September 25, a Charles County jury convicted a Ft. Washington man of two counts of Vehicular Manslaughter for causing the death of two Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) contractors in the autumn of 2010. In the early afternoon hours of October 21, 2010 Marlon Lorenzo and Erick Alvarado were working for an SHA contractor cutting grass and collecting trash in the median of Berry Road (MD 228) just east of the intersection with Bensville Road (MD 229). The two men along with one of their co-workers were walking in the median when a 2004 Volkswagen SUV operated by the Defendant, Yuri Marie-Francois Vielot, Jr., veered from the westbound lanes of Berry Road onto the median, collided with a sign, and then ran into the victims, throwing them toward the opposing lanes of travel. Witnesses to the collision reported seeing an explosion, flying debris, and two bodies landing in the roadway. Both men were pronounced dead on the scene. Their co-worker, Leonel Berganza, was knocked to the ground, but survived the crash. Mr. Berganza testified during the trial, giving his account of the crash, describing it as a day he will never forget, the day he lost his best […]
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