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A 24-year-old pastry chef, Emily Fredericks, rode her bicycle from her apartment to her job at a restaurant in Philadelphia in November 2017.\u00a0 As she approached an intersection, a garbage truck driven alongside her by Jorge Fretts, an employee of the waste disposal company Gold Medal Environmental<\/a>, prepared to make a right turn across her path.<\/p>\n

About 40 feet from the intersection, Fretts had passed a road sign telling drivers to \u201cYield to Bikes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fretts chose not to yield or even check his surroundings and made the turn without using his turn signal. The truck struck Emily\u2019s bike, knocked her to the ground and ran over her, crushing her chest. She died from her injuries.<\/p>\n

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