in a continuing series
A 22 year-old woman on a bicycle was run over and killed by a garbage truck this morning. Commenters in the DCist thread are speculating that she was in a bike lane, which makes sense given the location of the accident — the area north of Dupont is actually pretty bike-friendly by District standards.
Meanwhile, over at WTOP it took a whopping five comments before someone began complaining about cyclists' behavior. Classy!
UPDATE: Good stuff later in the DCist thread, too. Cyclists really need to clean up their act — think of how that poor truck driver must be feeling!
UPDATE 2: Jake mentions in comments that he rode past the scene of the accident this morning.
Comments
I was actually biking down R St., a block away from where this happened, about 15 minutes after the accident. I don't have anything to report but it was scary as hell to think about and I wrote a little post
http://citizenjake.com/2008/07/08/an-awful-way-to-start-the-morning/