8:09 AM: We’re separating this coverage from the morning traffic updates, as police are reporting this was fatal: A bicycle rider has died in what is reported as a collision with a truck at 47th SW and SW Wildwood in Fauntleroy, south of the ferry dock.
8:32 AM: The investigation will likely close Wildwood – the street between SW Fauntleroy and Barton/California – for quite some time. Our crew has just arrived in the area; adding photos.
8:48 AM: Police confirm to us that the truck above is the one involved. (WSB policy is that we do not show bodies, covered or otherwise; the victim and their bicycle remain in the street in front of by the truck.)
9 AM: This is the first West Seattle crash in which a bicycle rider died since the Arbor Heights collision that killed Steve Hulsman two and a half years ago. Not counting bridge incidents, the last fatal West Seattle crash of any kind was the one-car collision in Seaview in October 2024 that killed driver Riley Kestner…