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Bicyclist dies following crash with ambulance on Churchland Bridge

Portsmouth Police were called to the base of the Churchland Bridge at 10:35 p.m. Tuesday, at the intersection of High Street and Shenandoah Street.
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lighting of police car in the night during accident on the road when raining.

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WVEC) -- A bicyclist seriously injured in a crash involving a private ambulance Tuesday night has died.

Portsmouth Police were called to the base of the Churchland Bridge at 10:35 p.m. Tuesday, at the intersection of High Street and Shenandoah Street. Arriving officers found the bicyclist, 45-year-old Christopher Wilkins of Suffolk, unresponsive as citizens on scene were performing life-saving measures.

Medics took Wilkins to a local hospital, where he later died.

The crash investigation is ongoing, and there's no word on if any charges will be filed.

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