On a sunny morning in May 2016, Ali Clerkin strapped on her helmet and pedaled up the South Marion Street Parkway in Denver. She had used the popular bikeway near Washington Park to reach the Cherry Creek Trail and her job downtown since 2013, when she moved to the city.

As she reached East Bayaud Avenue, where the unprotected bike lane veers West to meet South Downing Street, and where another cyclist was killed just last week, her bike and a truck collided.

“I remember every second of it, every millisecond of it,” Clerkin said from her living room last week. “I remember feeling him hit me from my left side, feeling my head hit the top of his car, feeling my shoulder hit the side-view mirror of his, and, um, then I remember feeling my body hit the ground.”

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