Ghostbike for Dzhoy Zuckerman | 6100 block of 3rd Street NW DC

This moving and unusual memorial is for Dzhoy Zuckerman.

From a DC Police report: Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department's Homicide Branch are investigating a homicide that occurred on Saturday, July 15, 2023, in the 6100 block of 3rd Street NW. At approximately 12:08 am, Fourth District officers responded to the listed location for the report of a man down. Upon arrival, officers located an adult male shooting victim in front of the location. DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services responded to the scene found no signs consistent with life. The decedent has been identified as 27-year-old Dzhoy Zuckerman, of Northwest, DC. 

Mr. Zuckerman was beloved by many, especially in the DC area cycling community. A memorial ride was created in his honor and memory, as well as this ghostbike memorial. There is considerably more information about this tragedy in the Washington Post. 

Ghostbike memorial for David Salovesh | 12th Street and Florida Avenue NE DC

From a DC Police report: Detectives with the Metropolitan Police Department’s Major Crash Investigations Unit are investigating a traffic fatality that occurred on Friday, April 19, 2019, in the intersection of 12th Street and Florida Avenue NE, Washington DC. At approximately 10:00 a.m., an automated license plate reader alerted that there was a stolen white van in the area of Benning Road NE. Metropolitan Police Department Fifth District officers saw the stolen van near the area of Benning Road and Florida Ave NE and attempted to stop the vehicle. The driver refused to stop for the officers and fled the area. A short time later, officers from the Fifth District discovered the driver of the stolen van was involved in a traffic crash at the intersection of 12th Street and Florida Avenue NE. The preliminary investigation into this crash revealed that the driver of the stolen van was speeding, while traveling westbound on Florida Avenue NE. When the driver reached the intersection of 12th Street and Florida Avenue NE, he failed to stop at the red light and struck a blue Hyundai that was traveling South on 12th Street NE. The driver of the stolen van then proceeded to travel westbound on Florida Avenue NE, crossing over the double yellow lines, striking an adult male cyclist following the flow of traffic in an eastbound lanes of Florida Avenue NE. The driver of the stolen vehicle then struck a tree. MPD officers arrived on the scene shortly after the traffic crash and placed the driver of the stolen van under arrest. The driver of the striking vehicle was transported to a local hospital for non-life threatening injuries. The driver of the blue Hyundai did not sustain any injuries. The adult male cyclist showed no signs consistent with life and was pronounced dead on the scene. The decedent has been identified as David Salovesh, 54, of Northeast, DC. On Friday, April 19, 2019, Robert Earl Little, Jr, 25, of Northwest, DC was arrested and charged with Second Degree Murder and Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle.


Mr Salovesh was a leader in the local cycling community and was well loved and respected. I spoke to one of his friends at the shrine site. He came to pay his respects. He said "he was the best. He was so much better than most of us." There is a lot of material on his life and on the reaction to his death,  plus the the activism regarding safety undertaken by the local cycling community of which he was a part. See these two articles in the Washington Post. Article one here. Article two here.

Ghostbike for David Williams

Ghostbike placed in the 1400 Block of Southern Avenue SE, Washington DC.
From DC police reports:
On Friday, June 4, 2010, at approximately 10:43 pm, David Haywood Williams, 42, was on his bicycle traveling southwest in the 1400 Block of Southern Avenue SE when he was struck by a 2004 Chevy Suburban. The driver initially left the scene unaware that anyone had been struck, but did respond back to the scene of the collision. After being struck by the Chevy Suburban, Mr. Williams was struck by a second vehicle.
An eyewitness to the crash alerted an ambulance and described the vehicle as dark blue compact, possibly a Toyota or Nissan. Once DC Fire and EMS personnel arrived on the scene, the occupants of the second vehicle fled the scene without making their identities known.
Mr. Williams, of the 3400 block of 22nd Street, SE was transported to Prince George’s County Hospital and pronounced dead at 11:38 pm. The driver of the Chevy Suburban did not sustain any injuries and was transported to the Major Crash Unit pending investigation, which is still ongoing.

The ghostbike was placed by the WABA- Washington Area Bicyclists Association - and a vigil was held in his memory by friends and family.

Ghostbike for Constance Holden

Ghostbike at the corner of 12th Street and New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC. It was placed by the Washington Area Bicycle Association in memory of cyclist Constance Holden, 68, who was killed in a collision with a truck April 13, 2010.

From: http://washcycle.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8345198c369e201347fdc210e970c-popup
and the Washington Post.
The cyclist killed in Monday's deadly crash with a military truck was identified yesterday as Constance Holden, a writer and an artist. She was a frequent bike commuter.

All day long, beneath the windows of her building, motorcades of black sport-utility vehicles carrying presidents and prime ministers to and from a nuclear summit had been passing on New York Avenue, escorted by police cars and motorcycles with lights flashing and sirens screaming. City dump trucks and military vehicles had been used all day to block intersections against suicide bombers.

Two DC National Guard trucks were being rolled into position by a guide wearing a yellow reflective vest. A witness said Holden heeded a warning to step back toward the curb.

The second truck hit her.

Four people, one in military uniform, a traffic control officer, and two civilians, rushed to her side and called for help.

A DC police spokesman said it has not been determined whether the driver or Holden was at fault.

The Washington Area Bicyclist Association placed a white "ghost bike" near where Holden was killed.

Ghostbike DC

'Ghostbikes' are often erected by the cycling community on the site of a fatal bike accident.

This memorial to 22-year old Alice Swanson is at the corner of R St. and Connecticut Ave. NW, in Washington DC, near Dupont Circle.

She was hit by a trash truck during rush hour on July 8, 2008, and killed. By all accounts, she was an exceptional and lovely young woman.

According to the Washington Post, "The driver of the truck was identified as Marco Rosendo Flores-Fuentes, 56, of Falls Church [VA]. No charges had been filed in the incident as of last night."
For more on the sad story, and on ghostbikes, see:

http://www.ghostbikes.org/washington-dc