Few details have emerged
An adult male bicyclist was critically injured Monday morning when he was hit by a car on Maryland Avenue a block south of the National Mall in Southwest Washington, according to D.C. police.
Authorities had few details of the accident, which occurred about 6:15 a.m. in the 600 block of Maryland Avenue, between the L’Enfant Plaza Metro and the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum. It also is near the U.S. Department of Education.
Police said the motorist stayed at the scene, though investigators said it was too early to determine who was at fault. Police said the victim appeared to be in his 30s.
Police said the victim was taken to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries.
"life-threatening injuries"
Probably hit his head. This would be the second such incident in less then a year here in DC.
Posted by: david | February 25, 2013 at 03:03 PM
That is a scary block.
Posted by: Mike | February 25, 2013 at 05:14 PM
Mike,
What is scary about it? I have never rode it, and looking at a map of it, it doesn't appear that it would be heavily trafficked. What makes it scary?
Posted by: UrbanEngineer | February 25, 2013 at 05:34 PM
Yeah, this seems like an odd location -- there's a giant CaBi dock right in the middle, and that was selected partly because it's lightly trafficked and relatively slow. The road doesn't really go anywhere in either direction.
Posted by: Paytonchung | February 25, 2013 at 07:15 PM
The intersection at 6th and Maryland had been obstructed due to road construction. If a driver was speeding up 6th to make the light on Independence, that would make it a scary block.
Posted by: Early Man | February 25, 2013 at 08:42 PM
Lightly trafficked areas, though they clearly cut down on the likelihood of car-on-bicycle collisions because of reduced volume, often times lead to motorists not paying as much attention to the road.
Posted by: BlooEyedDevil | February 26, 2013 at 12:47 PM
^^^oh, and faster traveling vehicles because there are no other cars in the way. It's like the suburban country roads...lightly trafficked, but when there is a vehicle, it's usually traveling at a rate above the posted speed and all over the place when rounding
bends in the road.
Posted by: BlooEyedDevil | February 26, 2013 at 12:51 PM