
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.