CHESTERTOWN — A Chestertown man died Thursday after being struck by three cars on Augustine Herman Highway, according to police.
Maryland State Police said 49-year-old Randy Thomas Littleton was riding his bicycle along the highway near Round Top Road when he turned directly into the path of a 2010 Subaru Forester driven by 58-year-old Barbara Siaman Efland of Church Hill.
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[B’ Spokes: This sounds highly suspicious to me. Route 213 is straight, flat and has nice wide shoulders and at the T intersection of Round Top Rd there is a left turn run around lane, not exactly the most bike friendly design there is. So is the cyclists being punished simply for the "need" for cars to go straight and fast? Maybe the motorists had a hard time understanding why a cyclist would leave this nice wide shoulder and have the audacity to make a left turn like a car and failed to exercise due care. Maybe the driver was distracted? These are all speculations but I thought our 3′ safe passing law was to help guard against the excuse "but the cyclist swerved" did the police fail to examine this point due to the poor summaries issued by the State? I have lots of questions about this tragedy and by the State Police past record, I am doubtful we will see justice here.]
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I’d like to see mandatory vision tests ordered for anyone involved in any accident–documentation of said test to be available within a month–correlated to whether the parties involved needed corrected vision, and if so, did they have corrected vision at the time of the accident.
iodaniell
Before you decide who was at fault in this case, you should understand that the bicyclist was riding at night in dark clothing with no lights on his bike and going in the same direction as the woman who clipped him. He left the shoulder, weaved in front of her, not once, but twice. She was able to avoid him the first time, but not the second which caused him to go into on-coming traffic. This happened just as people were getting off work, so there was more traffic moving in both directions in a 50 mph speed zone.
One more thing, the deceased was not an avid bicyclist. He was a local man residing in a supervised living facility in a residential neighborhood. The police had been called on him previously for endangering himself and others. How do I know all of this? He was one of my neighbors. This is a most unfortunate tragedy for all involved.