No amount of money will bring back the life that Ty Whitehead led as an operations manager at a local law firm by day and an avid off hours bike rider before a brutal crash changed everything.

That’s what Whitehead, 58, told The Oaklandside this afternoon after his attorneys announced a settlement today with the city Oakland for $7 million for near fatal fall he experienced in 2017.

As his lawsuit lays out, Whitehead was biking along Skyline Boulevard on March 25, 2017, during an AIDS/Lifecycle training ride in the Oakland hills. That stretch of Skyline is listed by the city of Oakland as part of the city’s designated bicycling network, yet Whitehead hit a pothole and was thrown from his bike, hitting his head. He was in a coma for weeks.

Whitehead’s attorneys at The Veen Firm said the

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