Document: Traffic Fatality That Killed a 40-Year-Old Woman

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Metropolitan Police Department detectives are investigating a traffic fatality that killed a bicyclist on July 20.

At approximately 8:09 a.m., a bicyclists was traveling on the right side of a Mack truck traveling southbound on the 900 block of 21st Street, NW. At the intersection of 21st Street and I Street, NW, the Mack truck began a right hand turn at which time the bicyclists was struck. The bicyclists succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead.

The decedent has been identified as 40-year-old Shawn O’Donnell.