The Anne Arundel County State?s Attorney is considering charges ranging from DWI to “serious traffic charges” against two men involved in an accident that left two dead in Annapolis over the weekend.
Two passengers died and another two were injured early Saturday morning in Annapolis when an out-of-control Mercedes ? relying on its emergency brakes ? slammed into their van.
Jason Robert Dehn, 24, of Bellerive Road, Annapolis, was driving the Mercedes without permission, police said. Neither he nor his passenger, Fontaine Pridgett, 46, also of Bellerive Road, Annapolis, had a valid driver?s licenses, according to a police release.
Investigators said the car?s brakes began to fail as the car was traveling east on Jennifer Road around 5:30 a.m. The driver was trying to turn left onto southbound Admiral Drive using the emergency brake when the crash occurred.
“[Dehn] knew the owner of the car but he told us he wasn?t authorized to use it,” Police spokesman Lt. David Waltemeyer said. Court records showed Dehn had been in and out of court on numerous charges in the last six years including assault, theft, resisting arrest and assault on a police officer.
Terry Wayne Wright Sr., 56, of Hearne Road, Annapolis, was pronounced dead of extensive head and neck injuries shortly after the crash. Mary Agnes Davis, 48, of Bowman Court, Annapolis, died of her injuries early Tuesday morning at Maryland Shock Trauma, according to Anne Arundel County Police.
Wright and Davis were two of four passengers in a 1997 Ford Aerostar van operated by AAA Transport Services in Lothian. All four were on their way to dialysis treatment when the 1993 Mercedes crashed head-on into the van. No one was wearing a seat belt at the time.
Dehn?s blood alcohol level was “over the legal limit,” Waltemeyer said, but would not be more specific.
