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Hot off the presses<\/a><\/p>\n Maryland State Police said a 24-year-old Bowie woman who was riding her bicycle in Bowie on Friday night was not at fault in the crash that led to her death, contrary to previous reports.<\/p>\n Cpl. James Brazill, a spokesman for the Maryland State Police College Park Barrack, said a 2011 Chevy Malibu traveling southbound on U.S. 301\/MD Route 3 near Sylvan Drive at about 9:20 p.m. left the righthand lane of the road and struck Danielle Marie Cooper of Bowie, who was riding her bike in the road shoulder.<\/p>\n \u201cInitially we thought the bicyclist was on the roadway, but (reconstruction) evidence showed that she was on the shoulder,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Brazill said the shoulder where Cooper was riding is a marked bike path and she was wearing her helmet that night.<\/p>\n \u201cShe rode that trail over and over and over for the last couple years,\u201d he said. \u201cI used to holler at her about it, but she was always very cautious.\u201d<\/p>\n No charges have been filed against the driver of the Chevy Malibu, a 19-year-old Virginia woman who remained on the scene that night, according to Maryland State Police.<\/p>\n Brazill said he did not know how fast the car was traveling, citing an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n I suspect that what they mean is no charges have been filed YET. I said in the comments of the last post on this that the story of a cyclist swerving into traffic sounded fishy. Good job by the state police of investigating the physical evidence. <\/p>\n