Posted July 25, 2023 04:20pm
(KAIR)--An Atchison cyclist was transported for hospital care after her bicycle was struck by a pickup truck in the 400 block of South U.S. Highway 73 Tuesday morning.
Atchison Police Chief Mike Wilson, in a release, explains that 60-year-old Marie Moore was cycling southbound on the trail that runs parallel to the highway, on the east side, when a pickup truck, northbound but turning east into a business parking lot, struck her bike.
According to Wilson, Moore was transported by Atchison County EMS to Amberwell Atchison for examination.
The driver of the truck, 65-year-old Atchison resident Steven Metcalf, was not hurt.
The wreck happened around 10:10 Tuesday morning.