MDTA POLICE ANNOUNCE ARREST

CONNECTED TO FATAL CRASH ON I-395 IN BALTIMORE

 Driver Charged with Manslaughter, DUI, Speeding and Other Offenses

BALTIMORE, MD (December 14, 2023) – Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) Police Officers arrested a Baltimore County man yesterday following a months-long investigation into a fatal crash that claimed the life of a Good Samaritan this summer.

On August 13, at approximately 10 p.m., MDTA Police Officers assigned to the Central Command Detachment responded to a four-vehicle crash on the ramp from southbound I-395 to southbound I-95 in Baltimore City. Investigators with the MDTA Police Collision Reconstruction Unit determined that a disabled vehicle was stopped partially on the left shoulder and partially in the left lane.

Fifty-year-old Robert Taylor Horne of Smithsburg, Md., stopped and exited his vehicle to assist the driver of the disabled vehicle. Horne utilized multiple warning lights to alert approaching drivers of the stopped vehicles. A Mercedes-Benz SUV traveling at a high rate of speed crashed into another vehicle and then struck Horne, who was on the ramp’s left shoulder. The impact from the collision caused Horne to go over the roadway barrier into the water below. Members of the Baltimore City Fire Department recovered Horne’s body and pronounced him dead at the scene.

Based on evidence collected at the scene and following the crash, and after consultation with the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office, MDTA Police investigators obtained an arrest warrant for the suspected driver of the Mercedes-Benz, 28-year-old Latrell S. Sanders of Windsor Mill, Md., charging him with Manslaughter by Vehicle, Driving Vehicle on Highway at Speed Exceeding Limit (101 mph in a 55 mph zone), Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol and other offenses. Officers served Sanders with the warrant yesterday morning at the Jennifer Road Detention Center. Those charged with a crime are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.