Firefighter Dies in Route 1 Motorcycle Accident
The man was scheduled to work Tuesday night in Towson.
UPDATE (6:17 p.m.)—A 25-year-old firefighter from Fork died in a motorcycle accident on U.S. Route 1 in Bel Air around 11:20 a.m. Tuesday. For instant updates, follow Bel Air Patch on Facebook and Twitter. Kurt Mahlon Chenowith was driving a 2009 Kawasaki Ninja south in the 1200 block of Baltimore Pike when William Ross Kelly of Bel Air, 73, pulled out of the Bob Bell Chevrolet parking lot in front of Chenowith, according to a release from the Maryland State Police. Chenowith struck the driver side of Kelly's 1990 Oldsmobile Regency, which was turning north, and was ejected from his motorcycle, the release stated. Chenowith was transported to the Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. He was a career firefighter for…
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Leroy Smith
6:30 am on Wednesday, August 10, 2011
I am also a former motorcycle rider. I had been riding since I was sixteen years old. I learned one important thing to do while riding a motorcycle. That important thing was that I needed to ride like all automobile drivers are out to kill you on purpose. Even though they are not, you have to have that attitude. That seems like a radical attitude, but it has kept me alive. Also you have to assume… more ›