Woman struck by bicyclist in downtown DC dies of injuries

By Lara DeSanto
March 11, 2017 | 8:59 AM

WASHINGTON — A 65-year-old woman died after a bicycle struck her Thursday night in Northwest D.C., police said.

The bicyclist was riding south on 13th Street NW toward I Street NW at around 6:45 p.m. when a woman, identified as 65-year-old Jane Bennett Clark of Takoma Park, Maryland, stepped off the southwest curb into the crosswalk, police said. The bicyclist hit Clark, who then fell to the ground.

The bicyclist, whose name police did not release, stayed on the scene in the aftermath of the collision.

Emergency personnel moved Clark to a nearby hospital for treatment, where she died the next day due to her injuries, police said.

The case remains under investigation.

Clark was a senior editor at Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, The Washington Post reported.

National Museum of the American Latino to be housed in historic Smithsonian building

By Neal Augenstein
September 1, 2026 | 10:36 AM

The Smithsonian Institution has decided to put the National Museum of the American Latino into an existing, historic building, rather than constructing a new one. The Smithsonian Board of Regents on Monday designated the Arts and Industries Building, a 145-year-old redbrick Victorian structure located between the Smithsonian Castle and the Hirshhorn Museum, as the permanent site of the National Museum of the American Latino, which Congress authorized in 2020. In 2022, the Smithsonian narrowed its survey for permanent locations for the National Museum of the American Latino and the American Women's History Museum to four locations near the National Mall on land owned by the National Park Service. The Arts and Industries Building, located at 900 Jefferson St. SW, was one of the four sites. New construction on National Park Service land would require congressional approval. However, since the Smithsonian already owns the Arts and Industries Building, the institution can place the National Museum of the American Latino in the existing building without additional legislation.

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