Baltimore Sun Business Editor (And Former Sports Ed) Killed In Wreck

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Lord, God, watch over his daughter and give his family strength.

A class act. Absolutely a great human being. This tears your guts out.

 

Re: Baltimore Sun AME Sports Killed In Wreck

Tim was a good friend of mine. We'd just been talking about possibly taking a joint vacation next summer with our families.

Please keep his family, including his wife Beth, a former sportswriter herself, in your prayers.

 

Re: Baltimore Sun AME Sports Killed In Wreck

My God. My condolences.

 

Condolences to the family, and the newspaper.

In my limited dealings with Tim, he was a really good guy, a straight shooter in every sense of the word.

Terrible tragedy.

 

Sounds like the truck MIGHT have been at fault:

Toohey said police received the accident call at 8:54 a.m. He said Wheatley’s car was pulling out of Corbett Road to go southbound on York Road when it was broadsided by the truck.

Deborah Curtis of Glen Rock, Pa., who was two cars behind the UPS truck as it drove northbound on York Road, said she believes the traffic light was red for York Road traffic.

She said she had begun to slow down as she approached the light, looked over at her son, and when she looked up again, the UPS truck had already hit the car.

The truck then broke through two rows of painted wooden fences and came to rest in the field of Marathon Farm, a horse farm owned by Peter Angelos.

Police identified the UPS driver as Kevin Callahan, 28, of the unit block of Wellhaven Circle, in Owings Mills. He was not injured in the accident, Toohey said.


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There's a certain irony (I know, not the correct usage) in the connection to Angelos, who I'm sure Tim had his dealings with.

 

wonder if there were cameras on the traffic lights.

 

For authorities, OK. But I don't want to see any stills or sequences. No way.
RIP.

 

I'm pretty positive Songbird meant only for investigative purposes.

 

Rest in piece, Tim. You will be missed dearly. I wish I was smart enough to tell you how much you helped me and how much you meant to me.

I figure, this is a great place for Tim stories. Here's mine. I hope others share.

When I was in college at Mizzou, I sent countless emails out to SEs looking for them to rip my stories apart, so I could learn. Tim was the first to respond, and the best. Shoot, he would call me after work and talk about my stories. That was 10 years ago. Now, we were in the same company. At APSE stuff, or any time I made trips to Baltimore, he’d take me out to dinner. We’d talk shop, life. He was a mentor of mine. He was one of the first people I turned to when I needed advice.

I just hurt. This is just awful. My thoughts and prayers are with his family.

 

Met Tim a few times at APSE functions and corresponded with him while doing stuff for the APSE Web site. As Nick said, he always made time for the "little guy."
He was one of the first to pass along kind words when I joined the Tribune.
Always a class act. Prayers to his friends and loved ones, especially his young daughter.
Rest in peace, Mr. Wheatley.

Paul Skrbina
High School Sports Editor
Chicago Tribune

 

(yes, for investigative purposes to see if the ups guy ran a red).