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Bicycling

For the second time in four days, driver strikes another car, then kills a pedestrian

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Drivers killed 2 female pedestrians in West Ridge, man on bike in Back of the Yards

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Driving

Driver fatally struck Mary Johnson, 82, in North Lawndale and left the scene

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CTA bus driver fatally struck William Hiebel, 85, next to LFT’s Buena underpass

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Prisca Reynoso-Benitez, 64, is 2nd person killed at same location on Devon in 9 years

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Bus Transit

Driver runs red, killing woman, 52, waiting for the bus in Auburn Gresham, flees

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2nd person in 2 months is killed on stretch of Milwaukee where road diet was blocked

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Man, 74, struck by motorcyclist was 2nd pedestrian killed in Humboldt within 2 days

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Hit-and-run driver strikes another car in Humboldt, killing Delia Renee Smith crossing street

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Driver killed cyclist Jason Hardt, 48, on road where protected bike lanes were removed

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