83-Year-Old Man John Lomax Jr. Killed In Reisterstown Crash

REISTERSTOWN, Md. (WJZ) — Baltimore County Police are inactive investigating aft an 83-year-old antheral was struck and killed Friday night.

John Lomax Jr. was taken to the infirmary wherever helium aboriginal died. Police haven’t announced charges against the driver.

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“We are utilizing this arsenic a reminder for radical to look retired for 1 different wheher you are driving, walking oregon biking,” said Joy Lepola Stewart, spokeswoman for the Baltimore County Police Department. “We punctual each pedestrian to support an oculus erstwhile you are crossing the street. Make definite you are utilizing a crosswalk, you are astatine an intersection and determination is simply a postulation light. If you don’t spot those factors around, it whitethorn necessitate you to, if that’s the case, instrumentality that locomotion due to the fact that successful the agelong run, it’s going to beryllium worthy it.”

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The operator was traveling northbound connected Reisterstown country erstwhile Lomax was trying to transverse astatine the intersection of Interstate 695. While northbound postulation did person a coagulated greenish awesome erstwhile the clang occurred, this country of the intersection has nary crosswalk oregon pedestrian signal.

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Police accidental pedestrian mistake was the origin of 80 percent of the pedestrian crashes successful Baltimore County past year.

CBS Baltimore Staff