A bicyclist was killed after being struck by a truck on St. Louis Road in the St. Louis area of Loudoun County, according to officials. Loudoun County Fire Rescue and sheriff's office deputies responded to the area of St. Louis Road and Millville Road at 10:41 a.m., and the road was closed for an investigation before later reopening.
Responders Rushed to Scene After Report of Pedestrian Struck
According to Loudoun Now, responders initially received a report of a pedestrian struck before it became clear the victim was a bike rider who had been hit by a truck. Leah Paul, a sheriff's office spokesperson, confirmed that the crash was fatal. The outlet reported that more details were expected to be released later that day.
St. Louis Road was closed in the area of the crash while investigators worked the scene, the report notes, before the roadway reopened once the investigation wrapped up. No further information about the driver, the direction of travel, or the exact circumstances of the collision had been released as of Thursday's report.
Crash Comes Amid Rising Bike and E-Bike Collisions Countywide
The fatal crash lands amid a broader rise in crashes involving cyclists and other small-device riders across Loudoun County. Sheriff's Office Master Deputy Terry Rudolph told WTOP that the county saw about a 70% increase in pedestrian, bicycle, e-bike and electric-device crashes during the first five months of 2025 compared with the same stretch in 2024. “We've had about a 70% increase in pedestrian and bicycle, e-bike, electric device-type crashes in the county,” Rudolph said.
Separately, a snippet from Virginia's 2025 traffic crash data, as compiled by the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, reported 15 bicycle fatalities statewide, which it described as a 40.0% decrease from 2024. The figures appear to reflect different measures, one tied specifically to Loudoun County crash volume and the other to statewide bicycle fatalities, and the full methodology behind the DMV figure was not available for review.
St. Louis Road has drawn safety scrutiny before. Loudoun County planned a public input meeting for December 3, 2025, on a speed-management study of the roadway, known as Route 611, within the village of St. Louis. In a separate, unrelated incident years earlier, a Bluemont woman died following a two-car collision near the intersection of St. Louis Road and Route 50 in neighboring Fauquier County, Loudoun Times reported at the time.
