[2]Truck involved in collision. Photo by Mike Juergens.
UPDATE: BU Today reports [3] the bicylist was Christopher Weigl, 23, of Southborough, who was pursuing a master's degree in photojournalism at BU. His Web site [4].
A bicyclist did not survive a collision this morning with a semi at Comm. Ave. inbound at St. Paul St. [5].
At 8:51, Sasha tweeted [6] from a passing trolley:
Body covered by a tarp. RIP. what a bad start to the morn.
Daniel Robert tweets [7] the truck appeared to be making a wide right turn onto St. Paul from the left lane at the time of the collision.
Around the same time, a bicyclist was involved in a collision at North Harvard and Cambridge Street in Allson, but he suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
By coincidence, a City Council committee holds a hearing on making Boston safer for bicyclists [8] today at noon at City Hall.
On Nov. 12, another BU student on a bicycle died [9] in a collision with a 57 bus on Brighton Avenue at Harvard Avenue.