Hi Shannin

On Friday July 29th, there was an incident on Vine Ave (Old 218) south of Riverside. At 2:12 pm, a man driving a pick-up truck heading southbound crossed the center line and started to accelerate towards the bicyclist on the northbound lane. He continued all the way across the northbound lane, but the bicyclist bailed into the ditch hitting his head and getting scraped up. The pickup continued into the east ditch. The rider had a camera and captured the incident. The Iowa State Patrol Post 13 is handling the investigation.

There were four bicyclists heading south and we assume they were biking out to join RAGBRAI. If you know who that may be, please send me an email to bikeinfo@iowabicyclecoalition.org. They talked to the injured bike rider and they may be witnesses.

We will share more information as it becomes available.

Mark Wyatt

Iowa Bicycle Coalition