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Probe Continues In University City Collision

Bicyclist Walter Freeman, 63, Killed In Collision With SDPD Car

POSTED: 5:42 pm PST November 20, 2009
UPDATED: 6:02 pm PST November 20, 2009

The family of a man struck and killed by a San Diego Police Department cruiser while riding his bicycle is asking for anyone who may have witnessed the collision to step forward, 10News reported.

On Friday, San Diego police and California Highway Patrol officers recreated the Nov. 9 crash in which a bicyclist was struck by an SDPD car. Walter Freeman, 63, died from the injuries he suffered in the incident.

Police said it was Freeman who was at fault, but family members said they were not so sure.

"No one has come here to my mother's home to sit with her as a representative of this entity to say, 'We apologize for what has happened. This is the protocol to do our investigation,'" Freeman's stepdaughter Yvonne Nieto told 10News days after the collision.

The family's lawyer told 10News they still have not received an explanation, so family members have posted signs asking anyone who may have seen anything that morning to step forward.

"We are going to exhaust every means we have at our disposal to reach an accurate, fact-based conclusion," said Sgt. Leonard Flake of the San Diego Police Department.

Police said Freeman made a sharp left turn out of a gas station and darted into traffic when the cruiser struck him. The officer in the car was responding to another collision, but police said he was going under the speed limit. Police said the officer is now back at work, but still distraught.

"We understand that he took the incident very hard, as anyone would," said Flake.

The Multi-Action Disciplinary Investigation Team reconstructed the collision to gather more information.

Freeman's family said they are hoping the reconstruction will help provide some answers.

Police told 10News they would release the officer's name and possibly more information on their findings next week.
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