A stretch of North Point Boulevard in Dundalk that lacks sidewalks and decent lighting has become the center of a grassroots safety campaign after 36-year-old Rickey Sasser was struck and killed there in January 2025. His sister, Amanda Sasser, who lives in Anne Arundel County, has been driving to Dundalk most Saturdays to gather signatures for a petition that calls for lights, crosswalks, and sidewalks along the busy corridor. She says she wants to force elected officials and traffic engineers to act before another pedestrian is killed.
Petition and community response
Sasser has been collecting signatures in person, and she says the community response has been strong. She is hoping that a thick stack of names will push officials to study engineering fixes or add lighting. According to WMAR2 News, Sasser told reporters that the first vehicle fled the scene when her brother was struck and that a second vehicle later hit him again. Neighbors she meets while canvassing say they walk to nearby restaurants and a Walmart, and they complain that the corridor lacks basic pedestrian infrastructure.
Online petition and signatures
Sasser also launched an online petition on Change.org on April 24, 2026. The page shows a small number of verified online signers, while Sasser says she has collected many more signatures in person. “He was a devoted father; he was my everything,” Sasser told reporters as she described why she began canvassing in Dundalk. She says the combined in-person and online push is meant to build political pressure ahead of any county engineering review.
Why North Point?
North Point Boulevard has seen multiple deadly pedestrian crashes in recent months, and residents frequently complain about speeding and the lack of sidewalks. Local reporting has highlighted a fatal hit-and-run on the 5200 block of North Point Boulevard in late January 2026 and another deadly collision near North Point and Trappe Road in December 2025, underscoring complaints that people are sometimes forced to walk in the roadway. Those accounts also quote safety groups and residents who say the corridor’s mix of commercial development and high speeds has made crossings more dangerous for people on foot, and report that snowbanks and narrow shoulders can leave pedestrians with no safe option other than walking in traffic lanes.
Who decides, and how changes happen
Any roadway and pedestrian upgrades on North Point would fall to Baltimore County’s Department of Public Works and Transportation. The county’s pedestrian and bicycle planning pages explain that sidewalk and crossing projects are prioritized through planning and petition processes, and they suggest contacting the Division of Highway Design for upgrade requests. According to the county, pedestrian and bicycle projects are typically funded through capital programming and must be weighed against engineering criteria and competing priorities. Sasser and her supporters say they plan to present the petition to county staff and their local council member once they have gathered more signatures.
For now, Sasser plans to keep spending her Saturdays collecting signatures and pushing for the basic safety features she believes might have saved her brother. Whether that petition turns into new lights, marked crossings, or sidewalks will come down to how county engineers and elected officials rank North Point Boulevard against other capital needs.
