GUTHRIE COUNTY, Iowa — A Guthrie Center bicyclist was hit and killed by a pickup truck on Wednesday evening, an Iowa State Patrol crash report says.
The bicyclist was towing a bicycle buggy and heading west on Highway 44 just east of Bluff Street around 5:40 p.m. on Wednesday when a westbound truck hit him.
First responders transported the bicyclist, identified as 69-year-old Wayne Wesley Hayes of Guthrie Center, to the Guthrie County Hospital, where he later died from his injuries.
The truck driver, 83-year-old Francis Junior Flanery from Panora, was not injured in the crash.
It's unclear what caused the collision. At this time, no charges have been filed against Flanery.
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