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The Washington Post has an updated story with the victim's name:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2018/03/1...

> Police said the vehicle was northbound on Curry Road when a woman, identified as 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, crossing from the west side of street, was struck. She died at a hospital, the department said.

No mention of her being a bicyclist. My gut instinct is to accept that the victim was indeed a pedestrian -- with the assumption that they'd have that detail cleared up by the time they have her identity ready to release to the public.

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I'd think so too, but there is literally a crumpled bicycle in the photo of the scene. Also the Uber has a dent on the right side, which faces east.

It's possible she was walking her bicycle across the street, but that still looks pretty bad for Uber. That street is a straight shot with clear visibility.

And if she was walking a bicycle, it was extremely unlikely that she "darted out". It takes some skill to do that.

(Still need more info, though.)

Yeah, the police clarified that she was walking her bike across the street: https://twitter.com/AngieKoehle/status/975824484409077760

> the vehicle was northbound...crossing from the west side of street

So, she approached from the left. That would make it significantly less likely that she just suddenly appeared in front of the car, right? It's not a narrow street.

What I'm saying is unlikely as I'd most likely assume she was traveling along the sidewalk for some distance before being hit but there is always the chance she was walking the bike across the grass and came out from that direction (where those bushes are, they seem tall enough from what I can see)? This is all assuming when you say 'left' you meant on the left side of the Google Street View posted above, though.

The location of the crash (from what I can tell): https://www.google.com/maps/place/N+Mill+Ave+%26+E+Curry+Rd,...

Close. Going by the article photo [0], the location was in front of these double-left turn signs, and the Uber vehicle would have been facing the other direction, i.e. northbound:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/N+Mill+Ave+%26+E+Curry+Rd,...

[0] The caption for this photo says the crack in the road represents "burned out flares at the location where a woman pedestrian was struck and killed". Not sure if that is exactly where she was hit, or if that's where her body landed, or if the flares were just near the location.

http://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20180319&t=2&...

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