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With her belongings in three plastic bags slung over the handlebars, Cynthia Arsnow rode her green bicycle in the rain, snow, dark and sunshine, about 40 miles round-trip, from the East Side of Madison to work in Cross Plains almost daily.

Occasionally, fellow workers at HSA Home Warranty Services in Cross Plains would see her cycling on the narrow edges of Highway 14 in her orange vest and give her — and her bike — a ride.

Arsnow, 62, was headed west on that route Friday morning just outside of Cross Plains near Stagecoach Road when her bicycle was struck by a pickup truck driven by Rollen Fries, 69, of Mazomanie. She was killed. No citations have been issued, said Dane County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Elise Schaffer.

At the crash scene Friday, Lt. Joe Sampson told a television reporter the truck driver “said he was looking at some papers and drove off the shoulder of the road and hit her.”

Sampson said Arsnow “was between the gravel and the white (fog) line so she was off the roadway.”

“She rode in from the East Side, even in the winter,” said Pat Reardon, a fellow worker who gave the woman and her bike a ride whenever possible.