Police lay careless driving charge in Jay Keddy cycling death
Hamilton Spectator By Joanna Frketich
A 55-year-old Hamilton man has been charged with careless driving in connection with a fatal collision that killed a Prince of Wales kindergarten teacher.
Jay Keddy, 53, was killed just before 6 p.m. Dec. 2, 2015 when he was struck by a dark-coloured truck while cycling on the upbound lanes of the Claremont Access.
A police investigation at the time of the accident led detectives to an address on the West Mountain where the vehicle involved in the collision was located. A warrant was obtained to seize the vehicle.
At that time, a 55-year-old person of interest was taken into police custody for questioning and later released unconditionally.
A 55-year-old man was charged Friday and will appear in court at a later date.
Keddy regularly cycled to school from his central Mountain home. He'd stayed late at the Melrose Avenue North elementary school that day to cheer on the senior girls' volleyball team as they played in the city championship for the first time.
Described by the school principal as "very student-centred" he also ran the school choir.
Keddy was married to Ingrid, an office administrator at another Hamilton school. The couple had three grown children.
They were former missionaries who did work in Africa and were active at West Highland Baptist Church.
Keddy's death prompted the Hamilton cycling community to renew demands for bike lanes to be installed on all city accesses to improve safety.
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