Motorcyclists' Rights Group Leader Killed In Crash POSTED: 10:28 am EDT August 31, 2006 UPDATED: 2:03 pm EDT August 31, 2006 EASTON, Md. -- An Eastern Shore man who was the state director of an organization that lobbies for the rights of motorcycle owners was killed while riding his motorcycle. A sport utility vehicle struck Martin L. Schultz's bike Wednesday at an intersection in Easton, according to Maryland State Police. Schultz ran off the road and struck a telephone pole. He died at the scene. The SUV driver, Latasha R. Neal, 25, of Hurlock, was treated at Memorial Hospital at Easton and released. Schultz, 44, of Newcomb, was state director of ABATE (A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments) of Maryland in Annapolis. The association's members, according to its Web site, "have joined together to advocate training as the foremost means to reducing accidents and injury, to put an end to discriminatory legislation, to communicate via a bimonthly newsletter, to explore ways to improve the overall motorcycling experience in Maryland, and to provide for and assure a continuing freedom and affordability of motorcycling." ABATE opposes mandatory helmet laws and has a "Helmet Law Protest Ride" scheduled for October. State police said a helmet was recovered from the scene of Schultz's crash, but it was not immediately known if he was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident. HUH!?! Maryland has a mandatory helmet law. He was a leader of ABATE. You can't ride any where in the Easton area and not eventually see a police. It's not that rural of an area. He didn't want to pick a fight with the law he only wanted to change the law! What makes them think he wasn't wearing the helmet? Just because he belonged to and was a leader of ABATE? You would think maybe, JUST MAYBE! the helmet was ripped off his head from the force of the impact? I guess that thought never entered their minds. Anyway, it doesn't make for a interesting enough story.(sensationalism) The insensitive information that news reporters print just burns me up.
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