Multiple hit-and-runs on ‘highway of death’ claim 2 mothers’ lives within 24 hours

Maryland Highway 210 with images of Loretta Canter and Sandra Orellana

Background: Maryland’s Highway 210 (WRC). Top inset: Loretta Lynn Canter (WRC). Bottom inset: Sandra Abarca Orellana (WRC).

Two families are grieving after a pair of hit-and-run incidents resulted in the deaths of two Maryland mothers, both of them occurring on what has become known as the “highway of death.”

Loretta Lynn Canter was a 40-year-old mother of three children who was killed on Highway 210 near Farmington Road in Accokeek. At around 9:50 p.m. on Nov. 22, Prince George’s County Police responded to a collision involving a pedestrian, who turned out to be Canter. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

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