A 28-year-old woman who was slightly injured when her Honda Accord hit a Cadillac Escalade driven by Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps in Baltimore’s Mid-Town Belvedere neighborhood is to be charged with running a red light, a city police spokesman said Friday.
The woman is identified in a police report as Amanda Elizabeth Virkus of Sandy Spring in Montgomery County. If found guilty of the citation, she faces a $180 fine and three points against her driving record. Virkus suffered neck and shoulder injuries, according to the city Fire Department, and was treated and released from Maryland Shock Trauma Center.
Phelps and his three passengers – a man from Ann Arbor, Mich., a woman from Staten Island, N.Y., and a woman from Baltimore – were not injured in Thursday’s 9 p.m. accident at North Calvert and East Biddle streets that left the 2009 Escalade with a crumpled front end and its driver’s side air bag deployed.
But the Baltimore Police Department’s chief spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi, said Phelps gave officers an expired Michigan driver’s license. The spokesman said Phelps will be issued a $40 citation for driving without a license as well as a citation charging that he has not established a legal residency in Maryland. Phelps, who grew up in Rodgers Forge and recently moved to a waterfront condo in Fells Point, has trained for several years with his coach, Bob Bowman, at the University of Michigan as well as in Baltimore County. Neither Phelps nor Bowman could be reached for comment; his agent did not return several calls on Friday.
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