A weekend crash that left a cyclist in the hospital was caused when she allegedly failed to stop at the intersection of the W&OD Trail and the road, Fairfax County police said Tuesday.
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The crash took at 5:45 p.m. Saturday when the cyclist, a 53-year-old woman, was traveling southbound on the W&OD trail approaching Sunrise Valley Drive, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.
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“The bicyclist allegedly failed to stop before attempting to cross Sunrise Valley Drive and was struck,” Don Gotthardt, spokesman for the police department, wrote in an email.
The 53-year-old driver of the 2013 Chevrolet Suburban that struck the cyclist remained on the scene, police said.
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The cyclist was taken to a local hospital with injuries that police described as non-life threatening. No charges are pending in the case, police said.
The incident was first reported in a blog post by Fairfax Advocates for Better Bicycling, a local cycling group The accident prompted an .outpouring of concern from the cycling community and local residents.
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