Bicyclist

A man riding a bicycle on Fort Smallwood Road near the Rock Hill Beach section of Pasadena was killed yesterday when he was struck from behind by a sport utility vehicle, county police said.The victim was northbound in the center turn lane of Fort Smallwood Road near Farmview Road about 5: 35 p.m. when he was struck by a 1998 Toyota SUV traveling in an adjacent through lane, said police spokesman Officer Charles Ravenell. He was pronounced dead at the scene.The accident is being investigated by the county police traffic division.

An Elkridge bicyclist who was critically injured when he was struck by a vehicle last week on U.S. 1 has died, Howard County police said.Nick J. Prieto, 41, of the 6600 block of Washington Blvd. was struck by a Jeep Wrangler on Dec. 2 near Business Parkway in Jessup.He was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where he died Friday of his injuries, police said.nTC The driver of the Wrangler, Jeffrey L. Morris, 40, of the 100 block of Keeton Road in Elkridge, was not injured.Police are investigating.

NORTH POINT -- County police were attempting to identify a bicyclist who died after he was struck by a car yesterday while crossing North Point Boulevard from Eastpoint Mall yesterday afternoon.The cyclist was crossing the 100 block of North Point Blvd. against a red light when he was struck by a northbound 1980 Cadillac about 1: 40 p.m., police said. He suffered injuries to his head and upper body and was airlifted to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore City, where he died at 2: 10 p.m.Police described the victim as a white male between 15 and 20 years old, who wore dark shorts, a multicolored shirt, and a red and blue baseball cap.Pub Date: 7/14/97

The remainder of a former Westminster man's sentence of 10 years without parole on a 1993 cocaine conviction was suspended yesterday by a state appellate court, which ruled that the sentence should have been modified to allow him to seek parole.Kenneth E. Kutcherman, 28, of Liberty Heights in Baltimore was released to the custody of the state Division of Correction because of other matters pending against him, county officials said.Circuit Judge Francis M. Arnold placed Kutcherman, who once lived on Washington Lane, on five years of supervised probation beginning when he is released from prison.

Bicyclist hit by car, found lying in roadwayA bicyclist was struck by a car early yesterday after he rode into its path in Columbia's Wilde Lake village, Howard County rescue officials said.Jose Fuentes, 25, of Columbia was treated at Howard County General Hospital yesterday and released, a hospital spokesman said.Fuentes rode his bicycle into the intersection of Governor Warfield Parkway and Twin Rivers Road about 12: 30 a.m. Rescuers found him several minutes later.Pub Date: 6/26/96

A Baltimore man suffered head injuries when he was struck by a car while riding his bicycle in Clarksville Saturday afternoon, Howard County police said.Robert Moore of the 200 block of Longwood Road was taken by ambulance to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore Saturday after being struck on Trotter Road at 12:20 p.m. He was listed in serious condition, police said.The driver, Karen Goertler of the 12600 block of Golden Oak Drive in Ellicott City was not injured.Ms. Goertler did not appear to be at fault, police said.

An Edgewater bicyclist died Tuesday night when he collided head-on with a car on Solomons Island Road in front of the Southern District police station, county police said.Joseph Glenn Ford, 28, of the 1600 block of Elkridge Drive was pronounced dead at the scene. He was riding his bicycle south in the northbound lanes of the road about 11:35 p.m. when -- near the intersection with Warehouse Creek Lane -- he ran into a 1988 Toyota Camry driven by Dorothy Mae Tongue, 48, of the 1800 block of Copeland St. in Annapolis.

A man placed a hard object against the back of an Ames Department Store cashier Friday afternoon and robbed the woman of the store's money bag, county police said.The cashier was carrying the bag from the register to a rear office of the store in the 8100 block of Ritchie Highway about 5:05 p.m., police said. The man crept up behind the woman, put the object to her back and ordered her to give him the bag. The cashier surrendered the bag and the man walked out the front door, police said.

A man riding a multi-speed mountain bike was killed shortly before 1 a.m. today when he was struck by a car at the intersection of Perring Parkway and Putty Hill Avenue, Baltimore County police said.Officer Jeff Parsons of the traffic investigation section said Scott David Milburn, 19, of the 7600 block of Old Harford Road, was riding his bike westbound on Putty Hill Avenue around 12:45 a.m. when he ran a red light and was struck by a Honda Accord southbound on Perring Parkway and driven by Andrei Kareem Tobias, 21, of the 2200 block of Corona Court.

The recent death of a bicyclist on Route 94 has prompted some west county residents to ask whether automobiles and farm equipment can safely co-exist with bicycles on the narrow, overgrown and curving "scenic" roads the county government is intent on preserving."

Police seek identity of injured bicyclist A bicyclist who police have been unable to identify was struck by a van Tuesday night in Arnold and was critically hurt, Anne Arundel County police said. Police said the van struck the woman, who appears to be 18 to 25 years old, about 8:45 p.m. at College Parkway and Bellerive Drive. The woman was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. Police describe her as a light-skinned black woman with a tattoo of a pit bull and the name Bishop on the right side of her chest.

A decrepit railroad bridge in the shadow of Interstate 95 could find new life as the linchpin of a 5 1/2 -mile trail encircling the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River - opening up recreational opportunities along a stretch of Baltimore waterfront that some are calling "the next Inner Harbor." For now, the century-old CSX swing bridge carries little traffic except the occasional trespasser with a crab pot. But city officials and a prominent developer envision a restored span that would serve runners, bicyclists and folks who simply want to take a stroll along a stretch of shoreline that is being reclaimed from industrial development.

Rikke B. Kaufmann, a retired accountant and avid bicyclist, died of kidney cancer Tuesday at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Mount Washington resident was 58. Born Rikke Hansen and raised in Korsor, Denmark, she began her career in Copenhagen. "She attended an accounting school in Denmark and completed an apprenticeship program with Arthur Andersen," said her husband of six years, Bill Kaufmann. After marrying her first husband, Richard Kelly, she moved to Baltimore, and the couple established Chesapeake Engineers, a civil engineering firm, where she served as controller.

Howard County police have arrested a 20-year-old Ellicott City man in the Sept. 26 sexual assault of a woman on a Columbia bike path. Police said yesterday that a detective recognized Ji Hwan Shin of the 2900 block of Brookwood Road as a known sex offender from a description provided by the victim. According to court documents, Shin had registered as a sex offender with Howard County police after being convicted on two counts of misdemeanor sex abuse in February in Washington. Court records state that Shin had run up to two women and grabbed their breasts.

A bicyclist died after he was struck by a hit-and-run driver in Elkridge on Thursday, police said. David Allen Overmiller, 58, of Jessup was riding south on U.S. 1 near Troy Hills Drive about 9:40 p.m., when he was struck by a vehicle traveling in the same direction, police said. Overmiller was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he died yesterday morning. Police had no description of the hit-and-run vehicle yesterday. They are asking anyone with information to contact 410-313-3700.

A teenager was fatally struck by a police car while riding his bike Monday night on the Peninsula Expressway in Dundalk, county police said yesterday. Daniel J. Haney, 17, of the 1900 block of Quentin Road in Dundalk was riding his bicycle in the fast lane of the expressway about 11 p.m. Monday when he was struck, police said. Haney rode his bike onto the roadway and the officer, who was headed southbound on a call, didn't have enough time to react to avoid the collision, said police spokeswoman Vickie Warehime.

Charles W. Munnerlyn, a retired licensed building engineer and accomplished woodworker, died of heart failure Sept. 3 at Casey House Hospice in Rockville. The longtime Laurel resident was 80. Mr. Munnerlyn was born in Newport News, Va., and was raised there and in Rocky Mount, N.C. He enlisted in the Navy in 1941 at age 17 and was assigned to the engine room crew of the destroyer USS Claxton. He was aboard during the ship's participation in some of the most famous World War II naval engagements of the Pacific war and during a kamikaze attack in 1944 that seriously damaged the ship's compartments, killing five and wounding 23. "He continued to operate the engines below as Japanese planes and submarines attacked the ship above," said David Phillips, his son-in-law.

A 33-year-old bicyclist was killed yesterday morning when he failed to yield to oncoming traffic and was struck by a tractor-trailer, police said. Wesley Boulware of the 200 block of Bolivar Ave. in Baltimore left an Exxon station on Nursery Road at 9:18 a.m., attempting to travel north, county police reported. Boulware did not stop before entering the road and was hit by a truck driven by Eddie Lee Hardy of Virginia. Police said Boulware was pronounced dead at the scene and that Hardy, 35, was not injured.

David J. Coder, an avid long-distance bicyclist, died of a heart attack Saturday while riding his favorite blue-and-red Trek 5200 road bike in Anne Arundel County. The Catonsville resident was 48. "He was at mile 51 of a 62-mile bike ride when he had the heart attack near Linthicum. He died instantly," said his wife of five years, the former Margaret F. Draper. "Doug always said he wanted to die on his bike." Mr. Coder was born in Cleveland and raised in Timonium. He was a 1973 graduate of Dulaney High School and attended what is now Towson University.

THE LAST TIME I wrote about tensions between bicyclists and motorists, a bicyclist wrote me a nasty letter that ended this way: Go lie on the couch and have another jelly doughnut, you fat slob. This was a ridiculous statement for a couple of reasons. No. 1, I don't eat doughnuts on the couch. I eat them on the recliner. This is mainly because my recliner is this hideous off-white thing, so when the powdered sugar gets all over the upholstery, it sort of blends in and my wife doesn't yell at me. No. 2, I don't even like jelly doughnuts.