A bicyclist, who police say failed to heed a red light for trail users on Grant’s Trail, was fatally injured near the 9900 block of Big Bend Boulevard on Thursday, July 20.
St. Louis County Police identified the man, who was hit by vehicular traffic and killed, as 85-year-old David Crawford of Dupo, Illinois. He was on his bike at the trail crosswalk south of the Oakland trailhead for Grant’s Trail near Kirkwood.
“The bicyclist had a red light and failed to stop,” said Mary Schmitt, media relations specialist with St. Louis County Police. “That’s what our detectives concluded after an investigation at the scene…