According to Fresno police, the incident was reported around 5 p.m. in the area of Blackstone and Gettysburg avenues.
Fresno, CA – A 25-year-old woman was injured after being struck by a car while riding a bicycle near an intersection in Fresno.
According to Fresno police, the incident was reported around 5 p.m. in the area of Blackstone and Gettysburg avenues.
Investigators said the woman was riding a bicycle east across Blackstone when she jumped the center median while holding her cell phone before she was hit by a northbound vehicle. The cyclist was reportedly not paying attention at the time of the accident.
The woman was transported to the hospital with unspecified injuries but was in stable condition.
The driver remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators.
Fresno experiences a high number of traffic collisions each year, with recent data showing the city had 1,600 fatal and injury crash victims in 2023, placing it in the lower safety ranks compared to similar California cities. In 2022, Fresno recorded 1,627 fatal and injury collisions, again ranking poorly within its peer group. Injuries and deaths involve a range of road users, including motorists, pedestrians (with over 200 pedestrian victims in 2023), bicyclists, and motorcyclists, and there are notable numbers of alcohol-related collisions. Speed-related, nighttime, and hit-and-run crashes also contribute substantially to the city’s high crash totals. Over multi-year spans, Fresno had nearly 500 fatal or serious injury crashes between 2018 and 2022, averaging a traffic death about every seven days, with pedestrian fatalities making up roughly half of those deaths.
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