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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 pedalacross a downtown intersection, the second courier killed in the Districtthis year, police said.
Paul D. Jensen, 32, of the District, was thrown nearly 80 feet intothe intersection of 14th Street and New York Avenue NW yesterday when amotorcycle collided with him in the crosswalk, police said.
The motorcyclist, who was speeding, was not seriously injured, saidSgt. Lionel Millard. Millard said police were considering whether to filecharges 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 thedepartment "sees its share of accidents with them.
"Some of them ride like crazy downtown," he said. "It'sfortunate we don't have more people killed."
But Jerry McCalop, 29, who has been a courier seven years, said couriersget 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 orriding down the sidewalk. ... People don't want couriers around."
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