Just yesterday we wrote about the installation of the L Street Cycle Track and DC’s growing efforts to become a bike-friendly city. But after an incident Wednesday night between a bicyclist and motorist that left the latter stabbed and bleeding, we may have taken a step backward.
DC Police were called to the scene in Northwest DC Wednesday night at approximately 10:20 PM for an apparent road rage attack that left a motorist injured after a bicyclist stabbed him, according to a report by NBC 4 Washington. The aggravated assault occurred on the 1600 block of Massachusetts Avenue.
After the bicyclist was cut off, witnesses said he used a bike lock to hit the driver’s side mirror. The driver, 28, then got out of his car and confronted the bicyclist. The two began to fight, which ended in the bicyclist stabbing the motorist in his side, according to a tweet sent out by the police department that night.
The bicyclist, who fled the scene, is said to be in his late twenties or early thirties. He was wearing a tan shirt and has a thin build. He faces charges of aggravated assault and destruction of property.
