Another day, another person on a bicycle killed by a heartless coward.
This time in Bellflower.
According to both KCBS-2 and Fox-11, a woman was reported down in the street around 1:55 am Friday on Clark Ave at Somerset Blvd.
When sheriff’s deputies arrived, they found the victim lying in the road next to a bicycle.
There’s no word on how the crash occurred, or how long the woman, who hasn’t been publicly identified, may have been down on the Bellflower street she was discovered. Or if she could have survived if the driver had stopped and called for help, as the law requires.
Investigators are looking for the driver of a white pickup, believed to have fled north on Clark Street.
This is at least the 27th bicycling fatality in Southern California this year, and the 11th that I’m aware of in Los Angeles County.
This was also the 6th person to die riding a bicycle in LA County in less than a month, and the tenth SoCal bike rider killed by a hit-and-run driver since the first of the year.
My deepest sympathy and prayers for the victim and her loved ones.
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