A pickup struck and killed a 74-year-old Morriston woman riding a bicycle along SE County Road 326 in Levy County on Tuesday morning.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) report, a 92-year-old Gulf Hammock man was driving his pickup eastbound on SE CR 326 east of Wolf Arbor Road at 10:41 a.m. when he collided with the bicyclist, also going eastbound on SE CR 326. The bicyclist was ejected onto the grass shoulder of the roadway.
Emergency responders pronounced the bicyclist dead on scene.
Editor’s note: The original story had the gender incorrect on the bicyclist and said it was a man who was killed.
It was a woman! My mother