Cyclist in Serious Crash

This was in Calvert County,

Shirley S. Milligan of St. Leonard and her nephew Keith Suber were riding bicycles westbound in the eastbound lane of Parran Road, the Maryland State Police said. The two were riding along a steep grade on a blind curve.

At the same time, a 21-year-old St. Leonard woman, driving a 2006 Scion hatchback, was driving in the correct lane from the opposite direction, the state police said. When she saw the bicyclists in her path, she swerved to her left, state police said, but Milligan simultaneously swerved to her right.

The Scion struck Milligan, knocking her off her bike, state police said. Milligan was wearing a helmet. She was taken to Prince George's Hospital Center. Authorities were hopeful Tuesday that she would survive. State police stressed this week that bicyclists should ride in the direction of traffic, not against it.

Wrong way cycling is the 4th most common cause of cycling fatalities. I think a lot of people do it because pedestrians are told to go opposite of traffic. Let's hope she comes out OK.

As of Monday, Aug. 6, Milligan was still in critical condition. Brady did not suffer any injuries.

Comments

[Ken F]

I think alot of people ride the wrong way because their kindergarten teachers told them to ride this way.

[James Milligan]

Maryland State Troopers are wrong in their assessment of what happened. Shirley was coming out of St. Leonard Shores where she lives and in crossing over to get on the correct side of the street is when she was hit by Brady. Shirley was a very adept bicycle rider. She purchased that particular bicycle when she was pregnant with her 1st daughter whom is now 25. Maryland State Troopers are frabricating the story of how Shirley was hit to protect this young Brady woman. Shirley was hit by the car that I say was speeding for one. The extent of Shirley's injuries would prove that.After being ejected off her bicycle some 20-30 feet, she suffered 2 fractured vertebrae in her neck, a collapsed lung, a fractured pelvis, a bruise on her brain, both femurs fractured with the left one breaking through the skin, 2 fractures in her right tibia, a fractured wrist and fractured ankle. Shirley was on the west side of street when she was hit and this part of Parran Rd. was not a blind curve.