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(Douglas Hook / Hartford Courant)" title="RTS4UJIYYZH53GQTHHTXBH6TDM" class=" size-hp_large" sizes="(max-width: 40em) 620px,(min-width: 40em) and (max-width: 50em) 780px,(min-width: 50em) and (max-width: 65em) 675px,(min-width: 65em) and (max-width: 80em) 865px,(min-width: 80em) 622px,865px" srcset="https://www.courant.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/10/27/RTS4UJIYYZH53GQTHHTXBH6TDM.jpg?w=535 620w,https://www.courant.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/10/27/RTS4UJIYYZH53GQTHHTXBH6TDM.jpg?w=673 780w,https://www.courant.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/10/27/RTS4UJIYYZH53GQTHHTXBH6TDM.jpg?w=581 675w,https://www.courant.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/10/27/RTS4UJIYYZH53GQTHHTXBH6TDM.jpg?w=743 865w,https://www.courant.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/10/27/RTS4UJIYYZH53GQTHHTXBH6TDM.jpg?w=535 622w" ></div> </a> </figure> </header> <div class="excerpt"> Police are investigating a fatal hit-and-run crash involving a bicyclist in Hartford on Monday evening. Officers responded to the area of 2222 Main Street around 7:13 p.m. Monday on a report of a bicyclist struck by a vehicle, according to Lt. Aaron Boisvert of the Hartford Police Department. Officers located the bicyclist, who was unresponsive in the roadway, and began... </div> </div><!-- .article-info --> <figure> <div class="image-wrapper"><a href="https://www.courant.com/2025/04/08/bicyclist-killed-in-hit-and-run-crash-in-hartford/" ><img alt="Hartford Police Department. 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