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Sanford Garbage Truck Hit-and-Run That Killed a Cyclist: Legal Rights, Deadlines, and the Fight Against Sovereign Immunity If you are reading this, someone you love was riding a bicycle on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard on a Tuesday morning — and they did not come home. A City of Sanford garbage truck struck them, and the driver did not stop. Now you are sitting with a grief you did not earn and a system you did not ask to enter. We are going to tell you what the law actually says about what happened, what the city and its lawyers are already doing, and what your family needs to do in the next few days — not weeks — to protect the case. Some of what follows will be hard to read. All of it is true. And all of it is said by people who do this work because someone has to stand between a grieving family and the machinery that is already moving against them. The first thing you need to hear is this: your loved one had the right of way. The Sanford Police Department cited the truck driver for violating that right of way. The driver…