Guilty Plea In Crash That Killed Arlington Cyclist: Report

WASHINGTON, DC — A Suitland, Md., man pleaded guilty Tuesday to striking an Arlington bicyclist with his car at a busy intersection in the District and then driving away, according to a media report. The accident victim, a Smithsonian employee, later died of his injuries.

Phillip Peoples, 20, admitted responsibility for the hit-and-run crash that killed Thomas Hendricks Hollowell, 64, radio station WTOP reported.

The fatal accident occurred at about 7:30 a.m. on Sept. 24 at the intersection of 12th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, DC police said. Hollowell was pedaling to work at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, on the Mall.

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Peoples was arrested last month, WTOP reported. At first he was charged with second-degree murder, but he accepted a plea deal with the lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter, according to the radio station.

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