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Speeding Motorcyclist Killed After Losing Control And Being Struck By Truck In Virginia: Police Speeding Motorcyclist Killed After Losing Control And Being Struck By Truck In Virginia: Police
Speeding Motorcyclist Killed After Losing Control And Being Struck By Truck In Virginia: Police Speed is believed to be a factor in a crash involving a motorcyclist who lost control and was struck by a Mack truck in Prince William County on Thursday afternoon, police say. Woodbridge resident Melanie Ruby Morales, 23, has been identified as the rider who was killed after sliding and being run over by a Triangle man driving a Roll-off Dumpster truck. According to the Prince William Police Department, shortly before 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 5, Morales was traveling west on Old Bridge Road near Occoquan Road at a high rate of speed when the operator "lost control and separated from the mot…

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by Zak Failla
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DC Cyclist Fatally Hit By Truck On Way To Government Job DC Cyclist Fatally Hit By Truck On Way To Government Job
DC Cyclist Fatally Hit By Truck On Way To Government Job A woman riding her bike was struck and killed by a commercial truck in D.C. while on her way to her government job, police said.Shawn O'Donnell, 40, was riding  near the George Washington University campus around 8 a.m. Wednesday, July 20, when a Mack truck made a turn into her and they collided, the Metropolitan Police Department reported. Despite life-saving efforts, O'Donnell died in a nearby hospital, police said. O'Donnell's death marks the second time in less than a week that a cyclist died while riding in D.C., according to NBC4.  On Friday, 65-year-old Michael Gordon was …

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by AJ Goldbloom