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Fatal Bike Accident

Monday, February 25, 2013

Ride Set To Remember Deceased Ellicott City Cyclist

The family and friends of Nathan Krasnopoler will hold the ride in honor of the man who was killed after being run over on the Johns Hopkins campus.

Family and friends will mark the two-year anniversary of the incident that killed an Ellicott City native Nathan Krasnopoler with a memorial bike ride. The ride will start at 6:30 p.m., on Tuesday, at the scene of the crash that took his life in front of the Broadview Apartments, 116 W. University Parkway, according to a news release.     Krasnopoler was a student at Johns Hopkins University. His parents have launched an organization Americans for Older Driver Safety to lobby for laws requiring more rigorous standards for elderly drivers to retain their licenses. Krasnopoler, 20, was hit in February of 2011 when a then 83-year-old woman driving a car ran him over while he was riding his bike in a designated bike lane near Johns Hopkins …

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