UPDATE: Multiple fatalities reported in bicycle crash near Kalamazoo

KALAMAZOO, MI - Police and rescue workers were rushing to the 5500 block of North Westnedge Avenue at just after 6:30 p.m. Tuesday to help cyclists who were apparently struck and badly injured by a truck in a hit-and-run collision.

Police were also checking to see if the truck, a pickup that sustained heavy damage to its front end, was the same vehicle that crashed into the median of a road not far away, less than 5 minutes after the collision.

Police dispatchers said the cyclists were struck on North Westnedge Avenue near Markin Glen County Park.

Rescue personnel were also checking to see if the pickup truck they had identified was a vehicle they were looking for after an earlier drunken driving report.

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