Man arrested in Salisbury for hitting construction worker, fleeing

SALISBURY, Md. – A Marion Station man is behind bars after he allegedly hit a construction worker and fled the scene Wednesday morning.

Shortly before 10:30 a.m., an off-duty Maryland State Police trooper was driving his marked department vehicle south on Airport Road, next to Salisbury Regional Airport, when he stopped at a work zone where a flagging operation was in effect. Workers were directing traffic and allowing northbound traffic to proceed. There was a blue Jeep in front of the trooper’s vehicle that reportedly swerved into the northbound lane to try to bypass the work zone, then swerved back into the southbound lanes to avoid oncoming traffic before veering off the road into a ditch.

Police say the driver of the Jeep, identified as 27-year-old Jamal Scarborough, accelerated his vehicle, ran over the orange casings placed on the road, and ran over one of the utility workers. The worker, a 64-year-old man, was taken to TidalHealth Peninsula Regional but was later flown by private helicopter to Christiana Hospital in Delaware for treatment.

The off-duty trooper, troopers with the Salisbury Barrack, and an additional off-duty trooper chased the Jeep briefly through Airport Road, Route 12, and Nutters Cross Road before taking Scarborough into custody in a field near Johnson Road.

Scarborough was charged with first and second degree assault, causing a life threatening injury while operating a vehicle in a criminally negligent manner, causing serious injury to a vulnerable individual, attempting to elude police, and related offenses. He is being held without bond.