Burke man speaks out about bicycle safety

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On National Bike to Work Day in May, Brendan Markham, 24, decided he would ride his bicycle from his Burke home to his office in Tysons Corner.

“It was the first time I ever used my bike to commute,” he said. “The morning leg of the trip went fine and I was feeling good about it.”

But on the way home, tragedy struck.

As Markham was riding home through Fairfax City that evening around 7 p.m., an ice cream truck struck him a short distance from the Fairfax Square Apartment complex.

Markham suffered broken ribs, one of which punctured his lung.

“When the truck hit me, I was thrown up on the hood of the truck and then rolled off and landed in front of its front left tire,” Markham said. “The tire then rolled over me and remained on my back before it eventually backed up off of me.”

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