[ThunderSleeps]

Article is very light on facts but here's a guess. She's headed the wrong way down a one-way. Vehicle (tow truck) is entering one-way street from a cross street. Driver looks for oncoming traffic in the only direction it is supposed to be coming from. Sees it is all clear and pulls out - right into the path of the cyclist. Bang. I'd say both are probably at fault. She should have been obeying traffic laws and not travelling the wrong way on the one-way. Tow truck driver should have looked both ways before entering street, even on a one-way.

Well, that's how it could have happened...

[ETL]

Good possibility. And you’re right, both are likely to blame. I ride about 25 miles a day, average, and at times do ride the wrong way. But I’ve been driving for almost 40 years, and so know how to put my mind in that of drivers I encounter.