Oakland settles for $7 million with injured cyclist

"No amount of money will bring back the life that Ty Whitehead led as an operations manager at a local law firm by day and an avid off hours bike rider before a brutal crash changed everything. That's what Whitehead, 58, told The Oaklandside this afternoon after his attorneys announced a settlement today with the city Oakland for $7 million for near fatal fall he experienced in 2017."

"As his lawsuit lays out, Whitehead was biking along Skyline Boulevard on March 25, 2017, during an AIDS/Lifecycle training ride in the Oakland hills. That stretch of Skyline is listed by the city of Oakland as part of the city's designated bicycling network, yet Whitehead hit a pothole and was thrown from his bike, hitting his head. He was in a coma for weeks."

Ty Whitehead suffered a near-fatal bicycle crash on March 25, 2017, on Skyline Boulevard during an AIDS/Lifecycle training ride. That stretch of Skyline is part of Oakland's designated bicycling network, and Whitehead hit a pothole that threw him from his bike and left him in a coma for weeks. The city received complaints about road conditions in the area as early as 2010, giving the city seven years to address the hazard. Whitehead sustained a serious long-term brain injury, left his job, and reported reduced cognitive processing. Oakland settled the claim for $7 million, the city's largest public property settlement.

Read at The Oaklandside