Josh Davis, Associate Editor

(Sept. 6, 2018) “Alcohol and speed” were factors in a crash that claimed the life of 32-year-old Russell Kenneth Mariner III of Snow Hill early Sunday morning, according to a Worcester County Sheriff’s Office news release.

County police and the Berlin Fire Company at about 3 a.m. on Sunday responded to a crash near the 9500 block of Ironshire Station Road in Berlin, the release said.

Responders reportedly found a 1996 Chevrolet that had run off the road and overturned, “causing the driver to be ejected.” Mariner was pronounced dead on the scene.

An investigation by the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office Crash Reconstruction Unit is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact Dep. Kenneth Reed at 410-632-1111.