Just saw a report from 2022 that one of DC's top cycling advocates, Shawn Bega, was hit and killed by someone in a van in Emmitsburg MD that year.
He was among other things the organizer who brought the 1998 Cycle Messenger World Championship to DC, and organized the criterium bike race that took place on the former "Grand Prix" course at RFK Stadium.
https://www.messarchives.com/memorial/bega.html
More broadly the
https://www.messarchives.com/memorial lists so many fallen messengers it looks like a war memorial. Fourteen gone JUST FROM DC.
#cycling
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