Three Dead, Triple Fly-Out
Wild ride into the night was the last ride ever for three Charles County young men...
WALDORF (July 25, 2005) ---  In a crash on Bensville Road near Waldorf, just 12 minutes past midnight early Sunday, three people were killed and two others were in critical condition.
Maryland State Police sent three Med-Evac helicopters to fly the worst cases to shock trauma centers. One person was first hoped to have survived but didn't, he died at the hospital despite the best efforts of rescue workers on the ground, the State Police pilot and the medic, along with the shock trauma center staff, bringing the total death count to three.
State Trooper First Class G. Matthias reports that a red 2003 Mitsubishi Lancer was traveling south on Bensville Road prior to Camelot Drive near Pomfret when the operator, Jason Todd Pasternak, 22, of Clinton Court in Waldorf, lost control of the vehicle and went hurtling into woods on the southbound side of the road. Pasternak and two of his passengers, Mark Evan Ryon Jr., 20, of Ann Harbor Dr. in Port Tobacco and Nicholas Raphael Falco III, 22, of Clarks Run Road in La Plata, were all trapped in the vehicle.  Pasternak and Ryon were pronounced dead on the scene and their bodies transported to the Medical Examiner in Baltimore for autopsies.  Falco was flown from the scene to PG shock trauma where he died.  Shawn Michael Burnette, 19, of Ann Harbor Court in Port Tobacco and Kevin David Jobe, 21, of Redwood Circle in La Plata, were both from to Baltimore Shock Trauma and listed in serious condition. Police say that Burnette and Jobe were both back seat passengers, along with Falco.  Blood tests of the driver will be taken to determine any alcohol use in order to determine why the driver lost control. No other vehicle was involved.