Driver charged in GRTC bus crash that killed 73-year-old man on bike
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A bus driver has been charged after a crash that killed a 73-year-old cyclist, according to Henrico Police.
Gerald Joseph Kopecky was struck while riding his bike on Broad Street around 6:45 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 22. At the time, police said that their preliminary investigation found Kopecky was riding his bike along Broad Street between Glenside Drive and Forest Avenue "when he collided with a GRTC bus."
Kopecky died about two weeks after the crash.
The driver of the bus, 48-year-old Hope Chamel Macklin, has been charged.
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