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It’s becoming somewhat of a token addition to stories involving struck pedestrians around the Washington region — whether or not the person struck was utilizing a crosswalk or not when they were hit. But when digesting stories which involve a pedestrian incident, it’s important to remember that there are some places that just aren’t that walkable.

Here’s a story about a man in his 50s who was struck and killed by a Maryland driver in Fairfax County on Saturday night. According to the Washington Post, the man was walking across Richmond Highway near Janna Lee Avenue when he was struck by a car as he attempted to cross the busy road. Police determined that neither speed nor alcohol were involved in the crash, but did say that the man “was not in the crosswalk” when he was hit. The man later died after he was transported to a nearby hospital.

I decided to take a rudimentary look at exactly where this man could have legally and safely crossed the street around where he was struck. The man would have had to walk at least a half-mile in either direction to get to an intersection where there was a crosswalk — this section of Route 1 features nearly a mile-long stretch of pavement where there simply isn’t any legal place to cross. It’s just something to keep in mind as stories continue to pop up about pedestrian injuries or deaths in Washington’s suburbs — sometimes, there just isn’t a crosswalk to be had.