09/23/2026
Police arrest MTA employee in hit-and-run caught on camera in downtown Baltimore.
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Darreonna Davis.
A Maryland Transit Administration bus driver was arrested Monday and charged with striking a woman in downtown Baltimore with his car earlier this month and leaving the scene, police said.
The Baltimore Banner obtained surveillance footage showing a sport utility vehicle striking Riah Luby as she entered the crosswalk at the intersection of North Charles and Fayette streets around 9 a.m. on Sept. 3.
Luby, 26, of Parkville, is seen rolling off the windshield of the silver vehicle and hitting the ground.
Video shows the man, who is wearing a yellow Maryland Transit Administration vest, pulling over into the bus lane on West Fayette Street, checking his car, looking back to where Luby was lying and driving away.
Lindsey Eldridge, a spokesperson for the Baltimore Police Department, said 63-year-old Curtis Collick was arrested Monday in the 4700 block of Mount Hope Drive. Police said he is charged with failing to stop a vehicle at the scene of an accident, failing to provide required information and failing to render reasonable assistance to an injured person.
Courtney Mims, a spokesperson for MTA, said Monday that Collick “is employed by the Maryland Transit Administration as a bus operator and has worked for the agency for 22 years.”
The incident unfolded as Luby was walking to her job as a paralegal. The crash left her with bruises, a contusion on her leg and road rash, she previously told The Banner.
Collick was on his way to work, too, according to court records. Police said in charging documents that the 2016 Volkswagen Tiguan that struck Luby belonged to another MTA worker.
The woman told police she had given Collick permission to operate her car before relieving her on their bus route, court records show. In dashboard camera footage from another vehicle, police said, they saw Collick stop the car again after driving away from the crash and get on the MTA bus, and a woman get off that bus and into the car.
After the collision, Luby told The Banner she wanted the driver to face legal repercussions and apologize to her. She could not be reached for comment Monday.
This story has been updated.
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Photo: Screenshot from surveillance footage shows a driver getting out to check his vehicle for damage before driving away after striking a woman walking in downtown Baltimore on Sept. 3, 2026. (Courtesy of Jack Stephenson).
