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Baltimore bicyclist’s family sues Potts & Callahan for fatal Maryland Avenue hit-and-run accident

Brew Editors 6 months ago, March 4, 2010 View Comments

Memorial "ghost bike" for Baltimore cyclist John R. Yates. (Photo by Fern Shen)

New details of the hit-and-run accident that killed a Baltimore bicyclist last summer on Maryland Avenue have emerged, with news that the family of John R. Yates has sued the alleged driver and his employer, Potts & Callahan Inc.

The lawyer for Potts & Callahan told The Daily Record there’s no evidence that one of the company’s trucks hit Yates and that police tests of blood and hair on the bottom of the Potts & Callahan truck came back “inconclusive.”

But Yates’ family contends, in the $5 million lawsuit filed yesterday in Baltimore City Circuit Court, that a video captured by a nearby security camera shows one of the company’s trucks turning right onto Lafayette Avenue and failing to signal, just before the collision.

The Daily Drip

  • September 3, 2010

    • On September 8th, One Less Car is hosting cyclist/cellist extraordinaire Ben Sollee for the Baltimore leg of his 2010 Ditch the Van Tour, a cross-country endeavor in which Sollee straps his cello onto the back of his bicycle and tours city-to-city without leaving a carbon footprint. “I love touring by bicycle!” Sollee writes on his [...]

    • Columnist Neal Peirce argues that demolishing old elevated highways, like Baltimore’s Jones Falls Expressway, would  heal communities destroyed by these remnants of the post-World-War II building boom. He notes that one place where this idea s being pushed lately is New Orleans, where there’s a move afoot to tear down  2.2 miles of the elevated [...]

  • September 2, 2010

    • Highlights from Investigative Voice’s coverage of pretrial deliberations, as three men go on trial for the 2008 killing of Baltimore City Councilmember Kenneth H. Harris. “You look at my face when you’re talking to me!” Circuit Court Judge David Ross said yesterday to Assistant State’s Attorney Cynthia M. Banks, who was reading from a notepad [...]

    • Here’s another opportunity for Baltimore bicyclists to assert themselves: city transportation officials are installing an automatic bike counter on the Fallsway. This comes from a bulletin from the city Department of Transportation, which tells cyclists to “just look for the diamond-shaped groove and ride over it. “If we have the traffic numbers and public support,” [...]

  • September 1, 2010

    • Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has announced that the famous Georgia-based Le Mans racing series will participate in the Baltimore Grand Prix racing events this weekend.

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