Nicholas Louis Vidi, a sports fan who was employed in his family's cutlery business, died Tuesday after being injured in a Carroll County traffic accident.
The Sykesville resident was 19.
According to Maryland State Police at the Westminster barracks, Mr. Vidi, who was driving a 1997 Saturn north early Tuesday morning on Route 27, crossed into the southbound lane and collided with a 1997 Crane Carrier trash truck.
He was taken by helicopter to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead.
The driver of the trash truck, Jeanette Zelaya, 36, was taken to Carroll Hospital Center with injuries that were not deemed life-threatening.
Mr. Vidi was born in Baltimore and raised in Mount Airy. He was a 2008 graduate of South Carroll High School, where he had been an outstanding baseball player.
"He pitched and was a shortstop and third baseman. He played all infield positions," said his father, David Louis Vidi of Mount Airy.
Since graduating from high school, Mr. Vidi had worked with his father at Vidi Cutlery Inc., a family-owned professional knife-sharpening business in Mount Airy that was founded in 1904.
Mr. Vidi was a member of the Winfield traveling baseball team and in his youth had played baseball for the Winfield Little League.
Mr. Vidi had just returned a day before his death from a vacation in Florida.
"We had dinner Monday night and we were planning a trip to Ocean City and one to the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown," his father said. "He loved the O's and the Ravens."
Mr. Vidi said his son was extremely popular.
"Nick was a jovial person, and everyone just loved him. He had tons of friends," his father said.
Mr. Vidi was a communicant of St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church Poplar Springs, 1125 St. Michael's Road, Mount Airy, where a Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 10 a.m. Monday.
Also surviving are his stepmother, Charlene C.T. Vidi; a brother, Philip Vidi of Sykesville; a sister, Angela Vidi of Mount Airy; a stepbrother, Tony Tote of Westminster; a stepsister, Katy Tote of Mount Airy; his paternal grandfather, Nilo Vidi of Woodbine; his paternal grandmother, Theresa Sofsky of Perry Hall; and his step-grandmother, Connie Courpas of Eldersburg. His mother, Anna M. Vidi, died in 2002.