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Cedar Rapids bicyclist dies after struck last week
Posted: 08.04.2010 at 8:06 AM
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CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA (AP) -- Police in Cedar Rapids say a bicyclist struck by a pickup truck last week has died.
   
The victim is identified as 51-year-old Susan Desotel of Cedar Rapids. Police say she was riding her bicycle about 6 p.m. last Thursday on a city street when she was struck by a pickup driven by 55-year-old Robert Fleming of Alburnett. He was making a left turn when he collided with the bicycle.
   
Desotel was being treated at University of Iowa Hospitals but died Tuesday. The collision is now being investigated as a fatality motor vehicle accident.

(Copyright ©2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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