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Column: AROUND THE REGION
Washington Post, October 19, 1994
A bicycle courier was struck and killed yesterday as he tried to pedal across a downtown intersection, the second courier killed in the District this year, police said.
Paul D. Jensen, 32, of the District, was thrown nearly 80 feet into the intersection of 14th Street and New York Avenue NW yesterday when a motorcycle collided with him in the crosswalk, police said.
The motorcyclist, who was speeding, was not seriously injured, said Sgt. Lionel Millard. Millard said police were considering whether to file charges against the 24-year-old motorcyclist.
Jensen was a courier for Falcon Express Inc. in Kensington.
Although fatalities with bicycle couriers are rare, Millard said the department "sees its share of accidents with them.
"Some of them ride like crazy downtown," he said. "It's fortunate we don't have more people killed."
But Jerry McCalop, 29, who has been a courier seven years, said couriers get little respect on the road.
"I have every right to be on the street like any other moving vehicle," McCalop said. "Police make a fuss about us wearing our helmets or riding down the sidewalk. ... People don't want couriers around."
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