OCPD Reminds Citizens of the New Skateboarding Rules
Ocean City Police would like to remind citizens of the changes to the skateboarding rules during the summer season. On October 1, 2012, Ocean City Mayor and City Council approved an amendment to the town’s skateboarding ordinance. Since then, skateboarding is permitted on the boardwalk during the same times as bicycling. While skateboarding is still prohibited throughout the rest of the city with the exception of the skate park, skateboarders now have another option.Beginning on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day, skateboarding is permitted between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. of the same day. During Springfest and Sunfest (Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday), skateboarding is permitted between 2:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. of the same day. Outside of the summer season, skateboarding is permitted on the boardwalk with no time restrictions.
OCPD reminds skateboarders that stunts and tricks are still not allowed on the boardwalk. Anyone with questions about the skateboarding amendment should call OCPD at 410-723-6610.
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Driver Fails to Yield to Pedestrian in Crosswalk
On May 30, 2013, at approximately 1 p.m. Ocean City Police responded to a vehicle collision involving a pedestrian at the intersection of Baltimore Avenue and 17th Street.
The driver of the vehicle, Arun Chainani, 44, of Arlington, VA, was driving westbound on 17th Street and was waiting to make a left turn onto southbound Baltimore Avenue. Chainani, who was yielding to a vehicle traveling eastbound in the intersection, attempted to make the left turn but failed to yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian that was in the crosswalk.
The pedestrian was treated by Ocean City EMS and transported to Atlantic General Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Chainani was cited by Ocean City Police with failing to exercise due care to avoid a pedestrian collision.
3 comments:
OC Skateboarders,
Haystack Marlow was the public citizen who introduced the state park a6 yrs ago, and the city council adopted the idea as the best way to get kids off the street and boardwalk, so why now do they want the boarders on the boardwalk? Captain Rick needs to recall his past and become a real mayor, not a real estate agent who is also a mayor.
Skateboarding should be allowed on the boardwalk!
I was driving in Ocean City leaving the inlet last Summer. A group of drunks were walking down the street and a drunk woman stepped in the street at a cross walk and I almost hit her. I had the right of way and they started yelling and cussing about it being a cross walk. That's how people get killed. Cross walks don't mean drivers can stop on a dime for drunk pedestrians.
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