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Vigil Held For Bicyclist Killed In Boston Accident

BOSTON (CBS) -- A vigil was held near the intersection where a bicyclist was struck and killed by a truck a few weeks ago.

Cyclists remembered 38-year-old Cambridge resident and doctor Anita Kurmann on Thursday.

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Anita Kurmann (Photo credit: Boston University School of Medicine)

The Swiss researcher, who was working in Boston, was hit by the rear wheel of a flatbed truck as it turned off Massachusetts Avenue onto Beacon Street around 7:05 a.m. on Aug. 8.

A symbolic ghost bike and flowers were left in the Boston University graduate's memory.

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